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2008 Brunello di Montalcino, La Serena, Tuscany, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sangiovese
Ready - at best
Antonio Galloni
91+
Product: 20081105269
2008 Brunello di Montalcino, La Serena, Tuscany, Italy

Description

By comparison with the sultry 2007s, vintage 2008 was markedly different year, with fresher, crunchier, clove, black pepper notes accompanying the classic summer fruit flesh of Montalcino Sangiovese. Andrea chose to age 10% of the wine in French barriques, with the remaining in large slavonian oak; the wine spending 30 months in oak, being bottled in August 2012. The result is a generous, medium/full bodied and true expression of the region's famous wine, with plenty of open-hearted, brambly fruit flesh/polpa, spice, and gentle tannins. The fruit noticeably bright and ripe on account of Andrea's organic vineyard work.
David Berry Green
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer La Serena, Tuscany

Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni 91+
La Serena’s 2008 Brunello di Montalcino explodes from the glass with a heady melange of aromas and flavors. Mocha, espresso, licorice, plums and the blackest of cherries saturate the palate. A large-scaled, voluptuous Brunello, the 2008 could use another year or two in bottle to settle down a bit further. It should drink well for another handful of years. There is plenty of La Serena’s typical boldness in the glass. antonio_galloni, Vinous.com Media - September 2013
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Sep 2013)

About this wine

Sangiovese

A black grape widely grown in Central Italy and the main component of Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano as well as being the sole permitted grape for the famed Brunello di Montalcino.
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La Serena, Tuscany

Local lad Andrea Mantengoli has been farming Cantina La Serena since 1988. The farm is next door to Cerbaiona and Biondi Santi, on the eastern shoulder of Montalcino. The vines here are grown at 200-400 metres’ altitude. This covers a range of different soil strata: atypically white and yellow tufo; sand; schist; and galestro. Each gives depth and detail to the wine. Andrea and his twin brother, Marcello, manage the estate. They are proudly organic, and they use some biodynamic methods. In addition to grapes and vines, the ecosystem here includes spelt, grain, olives and honeybees.
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