A bright and focused red, revealing cherry, currant, spice and iron flavors. Lively and succulent on the almost puckering finish, showing terrific balance and a long aftertaste. Best from 2025 through 2043. 2,800 cases made, 1,200 cases imported.

The 2018 Brunello Di Montalcino is expressive out of the gate and ripe with purity, revealing cherry lozenge, pressed lavender, blood orange, and sanguine earth. It is seamless to the palate, with its ripe fruit lasting through the finish, with freshness and energetic tension. With notes of sweet raspberry, wild strawberry, herbes de Provence, and saline earth, this is a beautiful and elegant wine to drink over the next 10 -12 years.

The nose on this wine opens with leather, vanilla, cranberries and figs. It then offers earth tones of soil, wild herbs, flower petals and crushed rocks. A rich mocha palate is lush but still structured. It conveys fresh cherries and strawberries before bringing in soil notes on the back, and angular, dense tannins.

The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino smolders up with a rich bouquet, mixing plum sauce with sage, brown spice and hints of shaved cedar. This is velvety, almost weighty on the palate, impressing with a potent core of dark red fruits offset by mentholated herbs and sour citrus. A staining of minerality is left to linger as the 2018 finishes with a crunch of youthful tannins, leaving dried inner florals and a nuance of worn leather to linger. At times, this is a bit clumsy, yet the final impression is one of classic Brunello.