2018 Cerbaia Brunello di Montalcino
The Wine Advocate
RP 93
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
Release Price: $65
Drink Date: 2025 - 2038⇒飲み頃に入っています
Opening to a medium-dark garnet color, the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino offers direct and thick lines with ripe cherry, blackcurrant, leather and tilled earth. The wine is structured and firm at the back thanks to the quality of the tannins, and it offers generous fruit texture and concentration. This is a textbook Brunello from a warm vintage. Production is 15,000 bottles.
Cerbaia is located in the northern half of the Montalcino appellation, and it has vines up to 400 meters in elevation. In 2022, the newest vineyard parcel (planted near the winery in 2018) entered production. This site has rich soils with schistous galestro and extends over one hectare. The idea is to use this fruit for a new single-vineyard Selezione and a Riserva. Cerbaia has scored consistency over the past vintages, and it should be interesting to see how this new vineyard changes its offerings.
Published: Mar 10, 2023