Pieve Santa Restituta Brunello di Montalcino 2019

Pieve Santa Restituta Brunello di Montalcino 2019

This is also brooding and reticent with an intensely earthy nose of both red and dark pinot fruit that is trimmed in hints of game

well-integrated tannin

There is excellent power and punch to the large-scaled flavors that are a combination of power and refinement while being blessed with an abundance of sappy dry extract that imparts a seductive quality to the mouth coating

) This wine is tight and compact

serious and youthfully austere finish that delivers sneaky good length

powerful and opulent big-bodied flavors that possess an abundance of palate soaking dry extract that pushes the otherwise tightly coiled tannins to the background on the massively long coffee-inflected finish that really fans out as it sits on the palate

Looking like a step up over the ’12

It is an utterly exceptional wine and a tribute to not only a great vineyard

touch of wood

which is common among the 2012 and 2013 Bordeaux varietals in Napa

sandalwood and Asian-style tea aromas

a floral note that is unmistakable