Frescobaldi - Ripe al Convento di CastelGiocondo Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2017 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $270.15
| Producer | Frescobaldi |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Brunello di Montalcino |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Sku | A100176 |
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James Suckling: 95 Points
Intense nose of cloves, cedar, dried flowers, orange peel, dark cherries and black tea. Full-bodied, firm and chewy, yet polished and poised with beautiful energy and freshness for the vintage. Long, too. Still needs a couple of years.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
This red features cherry, strawberry, rose, mineral and tobacco aromas and flavors. Complex and bursting with energy, this delivers fine harmony and a superlong aftertaste. Ends with lingering sweet fruit.
Wine Advocate: 93 Points
The 2017 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Ripe al Convento di CastelGiocondo (with a black label) is definitely shaped by oak spice and toast, but the wine also shows thick layers of black fruit, cooked plum, sweet earth and fragrant cedar. This is a full-bodied Brunello from a hot vintage and one that expertly carries its extra fruit weight and oak-driven flavors. Like other Riservas from this hot vintage, the wine is ready to drink now.
Wine Enthusiast: 93 Points
The nose starts off leafy and herbal, with an undertone of sweet vanilla that eventually intensifies into lusher notes of pomegranate and blood orange. Blood orange continues on the palate, where it's joined by black cherries, blackberries and a peppery finish. The tannins and acidity are both fierce.
Vinous: 92 Points
Dark and brooding in the glass, the 2017 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Ripe al Convento di Castelgiocondo smolders up with a blend of exotic spice and crushed stone giving way to mentholated black cherries. It washes across the palate with a dense textural wave of ripe red and black fruits, as grippy tannins mount toward the close. The 2017 finishes with power and immensely structured, lashing the tongue with youthfull concentration, as hints of balsam and sour citrus slowly fizzle out. Few wineries chose to produce a Riserva in 2017, but I must admit that Castelgiocondo did an admirable job here. While this will need time to soften, I don't expect it to mature well through its tenth anniversary.
