Fuligni, Brunello Montalcino

Fuligni, Brunello MontalcinoPristine and fresh, with driving acidity, the Fuligni style expresses elegance above all, reflecting its cool sited vineyards in the north of the region. This Riserva has understated but finely delineated aromas of flowers, raspberries and fresh hay, and is fragrant, light and dancing on the palate too, with fine milled tannins.

mid-priced red from Tenuta San Guido

A brooding and very reserved but highly complex nose features notes of dried flowers

but this is a beautifully precise wine

An exuberantly spicy nose is composed almost exclusively of various very ripe dark berries and exotic tea scents

The intense and tautly muscular big-bodied flavors that are slightly wild in character display outstanding length on the structured and youthfully austere finish that is shaped by dense but fine tannins

The full clusters were macerated and fermented with indigenous yeasts and the wine matured for two years in old foudres from Austria

Highly recommended

Pierre Lurton and technical director Pierre-Olivier Clouet told me that the final blend is 72% merlot and 28% cabernet franc (it was 75% merlot and 25% cabernet franc during the Primeurs)

Like the 2006

Delightful to drink now

It’s rare that a Clos St

which is to say out to 20 years of improvement followed by another 20 of plateau