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2018 Brunello di Montalcino, Franci, Tassi, Tuscany, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Sangiovese
Ready - youthful
Product: 20188167938
2018 Brunello di Montalcino, Franci, Tassi, Tuscany, Italy

Description

Fabio Tassi's 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Franci is lean, thin and polished. This streamlined performance is reinforced by dry tannins, low-intensity fruit and integrated acidity. I feel like these new 2018 releases from Tassi are thinner than recent past releases. The structure of the wine is also very open and accessible. Production is 3,600 bottles.

Fabio Tassi is a man in motion. He recently built a new winery with cement fermentation tanks and Slavonian casks for ageing. In 2016, he introduced the Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Colombaiolo, a vineyard-designate wine, and in 2018 he started making a fun Sangiovese called Brunò (I already reviewed the current 2020 vintage). Organic production started in 2016.

Drink 2024 - 2033

Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (March 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Sangiovese
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Tassi

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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Brunello di Montalcino

Brunello di Montalcino

Along with Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino is Tuscany's most famous DOCG and its boldest expression of the Sangiovese grape. Located 30 miles south of Siena, its 2,000 hectares of vines are hemmed in by the Orcia, Asso and Ombrone valleys. Brunello is the local name for the Sangiovese Grosso clone from which Brunello di Montalcino should be made in its entirety. The wine cannot be released for sale until five years after the harvest.
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Tassi

The Tassi family have deep roots in Montalcino. They have a legacy of working the vineyards of Biondi Santi and then as beekeepers, before turning their attention back to wine. Owner Fabio Tassi is a restaurateur, running the town’s flagship Drogheria Franci restaurant, and he owns its most prolific wine shop. His exposure to, and understanding of, Brunello’s wines, vintages and vineyards are greater than most – as are his relationships with many of the great winemaking families of Italy.
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