Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona - Brunello di Montalcino 2018 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $50.37
| Producer | Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Montalcino |
| Varietal | Sangiovese Grosso |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Sku | A100110 |
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This item is available for pre-arrival.
Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Description
The bouquet is intense, fruit-forward, spicy and floral with hints of red berry fruits enriched by delivate spicy notes. Warm, soft and very well balanced on the palate: well structured with soft tannins and a long aftertaste.
James Suckling: 95 Points
Roasted herbs, walnuts, olives, dried cherries and balsamic on the nose with a touch of leather and sage. It’s full-bodied with firm, finely-knit tannins. Creamy and so well integrated with depth and class. Try after 2024.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino turns out beautiful results if you choose to drink the wine now, or if you opt to age it a little longer. It offers immediate intensity and complexity with a prelude of red and purple berry fruits that follow to tarry spice, campfire ash, licorice and rusty nail. Those savoy tones are well measured against the wine's elegant, mid-weight finish. And the tannins are integrated seamlessly. The winemaking team has worked well in a challenging vintage.
Wine Enthusiast: 93 Points
Sweet cherry, vanilla bean and orange zest are on the nose, which slowly opens to reveal quieter aromas of cured meat and graphite. The palate emphasizes the savory with more sanguine notes pointed up by crisp fruit flavors of red apple skin and Bing cherry, emphasized by well-articulated tannins.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
Dense and brooding, revealing plum, cherry, earth, menthol and tobacco flavors. On the austere side today, with buried fruit and dominant tannins, yet this has fine equilibrium and extended length. Best from 2026 through 2043.
Vinous
The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino is dark and brroding. taking its time to blow off a whiff of mocha before opening up with a mix of dried red fruits, cloves and rosemary. This is surprisingly pure and lifted in style shile maintaining elegance, as ripe red and black fruits casacade across a core of vibrant acidity, The 2018 leaves the palate buzzing with residual tension, as pine-grained tannins penetrate deeply, and hints of tart wild berry and a dusting of cocoa slowly fade.
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