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Brunello di Montalcino 2016

Brunello di Montalcino / Potazzine

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12 37.5cl Half-Bottle Case 12 £295 per Case Case [Add to shopping basket]
Tasting Notes

Black cherry, black currant and plum flavors are front and center in this supple red, with accents of earth, iron, leather and tobacco chiming in as the tannins flex their muscles on the long finish. Everything is there, this just needs to integrate. Best from 2025 through 2048.

Score: 95

Bruce Sanderson, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2025-2048 03 March 2021

The remarkably pretty 2016 Brunello di Montalcino shows a pure bouquet full of wild strawberries, woodland berries and herbs with a hint of crushed stone. It's soft and enveloping, displaying fleshy red fruits, savory spice and salty minerals, while vibrant acids maintain wonderful freshness. It'™s only at the very end that its youthful structure comes forward, grippy and classically drying, yet under an air of red licorice and inner rose. There's a beautiful harmony to this vintage of Le Potazzine, which should provide a long and wide drinking window.

Score: 95

Eric Guido, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024-2034 30 November 2020

Le Potazzine always delivers a smooth and silky style with extreme elegance and the lifted cool-climate fruit that you get from this high-altitude growing site. The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino is taut and firm with cherry fruit, dried raspberry, tilled earth, spice and blue flower. The wine sees an extended fermentation of 40 days and ages in botte grande for 42 months. This is a well-balanced wine that is slightly thinner, with one notch lower intensity in this vintage compared to past editions. You get a light, sharp and streamlined style. I prefer the 2015 vintage slightly to this wine, but I'm suggesting a longer drinking window here. This is an 18,000-bottle release that hits the market in January 2021.

Score: 96

Monica Larner, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2023-2043 30 November 2020

This is a cooler style of Brunello with blueberries, black cherries, crushed stones and lavender. It’s full-bodied with firm, tight tannins. Yet, it opens at the end to pinpointed fruit and tannins. Give this time to soften. Try after 2024.

Score: 94

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2024 30 October 2020