Winemaker Notes
Wine with great structure, intense ruby red, complex bouquet with notes of red fruit and undergrowth, amalgamated with balsamic hints.
Pair with game, beef, pork, and aged cheese. It could also be served simply accompanied by the aromas of its Mediterranean essence.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
The purity and focus to this young Brunello is certainly impressive with crushed berries and flowers, as well as burnt orange peel on the nose. Full body. Firm and silky tannins with an intense backbone and focus. A seriously structured and balanced red. New wine from here. Drink after 2022.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This wine sees fruit from a two-hectare site (at 300 meters above sea level) with loamy sand soils. The Camigliano 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Paesaggio Inatteso will be released in March 2020, with a mere 2,600 bottles produced. This is a very special wine with a unique set of aromas. It shows pronounced Mediterranean accents of rosemary, lavender and dried basil leaf. The wine's fruit profile is also front and center with wild berry and dried cassis. The mouthfeel is silky, lean and topped off by well integrated tannins. The finished wine ages in 20-hectoliter casks for 30 months.
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Wine Spectator
Enticing flavors of black cherry, plum, iron, leather, earth and tobacco mark this red. Dense tannins and bright acidity lay down structural support. Tips toward the dry side in the balance despite the persistent finish. Best from 2023 through 2038.
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Wine Enthusiast
Underbrush, scorched earth and toasted hazelnut aromas lead the nose. On the rounded, accessible palate, polished tannins accompany dried cherry, roasted almond and a hint of licorice. Drink sooner rather than later to capture the fruit richness.
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.
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.