Galloni über:
Brunello di Montalcino Vigneti del Versante
-- Galloni: Vivid red. Enticing nose of red/dark berries, minerals, and herbs, plus a building note of marzipan. Finishes long, rich, still youthfully chewy and with a violet topnote and noteworthy salinity. Made with grapes from the Cancello Rosso and Bassolino vineyards (the lower sections, while the plots slightly higher up of the Bassolino di Sopra section of the Bassolino vineyard were used to make the Brunello of the same name). Caroline Poizer told me that she had never seen grapes like these before: in a year in which it never rained from June 4 to September 7, the thick-skinned, small grapes “… looked like blueberries”. 94+/100