Features

Brunello di Montalcino is an icon within Italian quality wines. It is one of the best known and requested italian wine in the world.
   Nonetheless the production concerns the vineyards in the territory of one municipality only: Montalcino.

But what makes this wine so important? and why does a good bottle of Brunello di Montalcino cost so much?
There are many reasons. First of all because is a great wine, an excellence within italian oenology.
Then some 'Brunello' of some wineries and vintages are really masterpieces.

The yield of the vineyard of a good Brunello is very low, combined with a long and slow aging in barrels. Further, it is a wine in great demand but the production is limited in this sense.

Brunello di Montalcino is a wine with a great structure, full of extract with strong presence of tannins: the long aging period** (normally 5-6 years and more) transforms them, giving softness, roundness and a bouquet unbeatable.

** It occurs at least 5 years for a "Brunello di Montalcino" and at least 6 years for a "Brunello di Montalcino - Riserva" and 2 of which in barrels.

We can surely say that it improves with time:

a Brunello di Montalcino can be aged even 30 years and more.

The flavour is dry, warm, somewhat tannic, robust and harmonious.
Brunello di Montalcino is a brilliant wine with an intense ruby-red colour tending to garnet.
The bouquet of Brunello di Montalcino is elegant, rich and complex : It can be recognized scents of undergrowth, aromatic wood, berries, complex notes of tea, earth and mushrooms blended.