Tenuta Fanti Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Tuscany, Italy 2018 Sonoma County the wine will develop slowly

the wine will develop slowly

the 2005 Chateau Pontet-Canet has long been one of the stars of the vintage and this might well be the best of over a dozen showings of this wine

cassis and red currant

This champagne has a sustained gold color

bold and elegant

Tenuta Fanti Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Tuscany, Italy 2018 Sonoma County the wine will develop slowlyThe 2018 Brunello di Montalcino immediately reminds you of the austerity and brawn inherent to this important category of wine. Brunello is released five years after the harvest precisely to allow complexity to develop in the bottle. That careful evolution has transpired nicely here. The wine shows dark plum and dried blackberry in a leading role, with spice, tar, tobacco and campfire ash at the back. The tannins are present but on the soft side, and