2012 Brunello di Montalcino, Vigna Paganelli, Riserva, Il Poggione, Tuscany, Italy
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Sangiovese
Ready - at best
- Monica Larner
- 95/100
Product: 20128012326
Description
Food match: roast rack of lamb
This delicious Brunello comes from one of the region’s best producers, Il Poggione. Bold and rich, it's undeniably Sangiovese, full of cherry fruit. Complexity comes in the form of a damson stone edge, sweet spice and balsam. The palate is plushly textured with plenty of refreshing acidity balancing the tannins. While this wine has many years ahead of it, it is excellent now with red meat, and even better with time in a decanter.
This delicious Brunello comes from one of the region’s best producers, Il Poggione. Bold and rich, it's undeniably Sangiovese, full of cherry fruit. Complexity comes in the form of a damson stone edge, sweet spice and balsam. The palate is plushly textured with plenty of refreshing acidity balancing the tannins. While this wine has many years ahead of it, it is excellent now with red meat, and even better with time in a decanter.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Full Bodied
Producer Il Poggione
Critics reviews
Monica Larner 95/100
Here's a beautifully rich and succulent Brunello that drinks very nicely straight out of the gate. The 2012 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna Paganelli delivers a warm, inviting and velvety presentation. This bold wine is redolent of black cherry and dried blackberry with sweet almond, toasted spice and balsam herb on the long finish. What stands out most, however, is the wine's rich texture that floods the mouth from front to back. That richness is fueled by the warmth of the vintage but also by the magnificent oak integration. This Riserva is aged in botti grandi for four long years. Bottle production is 45,000 strong.Monica Larner - 28/02/2018
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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Il Poggione
Il Poggione is a winery steeped in history with its origins dating back to the late 1800s. Owned by Leopoldo and Livia Franceschi , it is situated below the beautiful hilltop town of Sant’Angelo in Colle, a part of the Brunello di Montalcino appellation characterised by temperate, yet well-ventilated micro-climate. This benefits the grapes by maintaining refreshing acidity levels and extending their ripening time. Father and son winemaking team Fabrizio and Alessandro Bindocci coax the best from these privileged vineyard sites; they are also proponents of a traditional wine-making style which includes submerging the cap with frequent pump overs (for more colour and tannin extraction), and ageing in large casks (so that wood flavours remain subtle and do not interfere with the natural expression of the Sangiovese and the Sant’Angelo terroir). The Riserva bottling, made in the finest vintages, receives at least one year extra ageing in French oak casks. The typical style is intense, full-bodied, powerful, packed with dark fruit, menthol, sweet smoke, cocoa and spice flavours and a hint of earthiness. In the best vintages the wines demonstrate extraordinary development in bottle. Even better, prices have remained very reasonable, considering the superb quality of the wine. Poggione’s straight Brunello is one of the most fairly-priced, cellar worthy wines of the appellation. This is a benchmark property for fine, traditionally made Brunellos capable of ageing superbly.
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