Piccini Brunello di Montalcino 2010

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Piccini Brunello di Montalcino 2010 Front Label
Piccini Brunello di Montalcino 2010 Front Label

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Vintage
2010

Size
750ML

ABV
14%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Piccini Brunello di Montalcino offers aromas of dark cherries, plums, spicy, minerals, and hints of mint. On the palate, the wine is vibrant with dense fruit, cherry notes and sweet tannins.

Professional Ratings

  • 94
    A soft and silky red with dried berries and cream and hints of vanilla. Full body, fine tannins and a fruity finish. Best wine ever from here. Better in 2016.
  • 92
    Showing off the elegance of Montalcino, the sprightly and red-fruited 2010 Piccini Brunello di Montalcino could very well be the poster child of this incredible vintage. Stays persistent and fine from start to finish, frisky sweet tannins wrap nicely around the palate and transports the palate back to Tuscany. Already showing glimmers of its beauty, but will age very well over the next decade or so. (Tasted: January 9, 2015, San Francisco, CA)
  • 91
    The 2010 Brunello di Montalcino Villa al Cortile offers good value in an otherwise very expensive category of wine. The wine is aged in oak casks for two years and opens to pretty tones of dried cherry, balsam herb, candied ginger and toasted almond. Piccini's effort does a great job of reflecting the characteristic aromas most associated with quality Sangiovese. Earthy and floral tones give the wine a homely, approachable style that opens the drinking window to near-term consumption.

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The Piccini family is rooted in the heart of Chianti and profoundly linked to the region’s rich winemaking culture. Their story began in 1882, when Angiolo Piccini bought 7 hectares (17 acres) of vineyards and began producing wines under the motto: "It's not how much wine we make, but how much passion we put in our work."  Under the guidance of Mario Piccini, the fourth generation of the family, Piccini is today one of the most distinctive, dynamic and innovative Italian estates represented among the top 25 largest Italian producers. The Chianti Orange Label is the iconic wine, and reflects the family’s ambition to rediscover Chianti as a contemporary wine. The wines are grounded in tradition yet have an innovative, charming and fun personality, providing a bold and exciting choice for wine lovers around the world. 

Tenute Piccini is among the most prominent wine producers in Tuscany, playing a leading role in the production of Chianti, Chianti Classico and Montalcino wines. The family has five other stand-alone properties in top Tuscan wine regions as well as the two “volcanic estates” on the Etna and Vulture mountains, a parallel project to the successful Piccini brand. The family’s philosophy behind the boutique estates is very classical: producing wines that reflect the region, focusing on expressiveness of the grapes variety in relation to the area of origin.  

The family estates have been converted to organic farming. These practices, together with a selection of drought-tolerant rootstocks, lower density trellising systems, indigenous grape varieties replacing some of the less suitable international ones, aim at a holistic approach towards sustainable vine growing.  

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Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.

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Famous for its bold, layered and long-lived red, Brunello di Montalcino, the town of Montalcino is about 70 miles south of Florence, and has a warmer and drier climate than that of its neighbor, Chianti. The Sangiovese grape is king here, as it is in Chianti, but Montalcino has its own clone called Brunello.

The Brunello vineyards of Montalcino blanket the rolling hills surrounding the village and fan out at various elevations, creating the potential for Brunello wines expressing different styles. From the valleys, where deeper deposits of clay are found, come wines typically bolder, more concentrated and rich in opulent black fruit. The hillside vineyards produce wines more concentrated in red fruits and floral aromas; these sites reach up to over 1,600 feet and have shallow soils of rocks and shale.

Brunello di Montalcino by law must be aged a minimum of four years, including two years in barrel before realease and once released, typically needs more time in bottle for its drinking potential to be fully reached. The good news is that Montalcino makes a “baby brother” version. The wines called Rosso di Montalcino are often made from younger vines, aged for about a year before release, offer extraordinary values and are ready to drink young.

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