Salicutti, Brunello Montalcino Piaggione Vintage:2016 fresh and restrained nose offers

fresh and restrained nose offers good if not special complexity on the mostly red berry fruit-suffused nose

always loquacious on a wide range of subjects

The Sarmassa has aged quite gracefully

The 2016 Insignia has turned out beautifully

Salicutti, Brunello Montalcino Piaggione Vintage:2016 fresh and restrained nose offersThe Salicutti 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Piaggione is a mid weight red wine with a deep and lasting aromatic impact. The wine offers very vertical or lifted aromas of dried fruit, cedar wood, tilled earth, cigar, cola and medicinal herb. It also shows a lot of balsamic character, and this is something I often recognize in warm vintage Brunello, while it offers less primary fruit. The character here is ethereal and fragrant, shedding any monolithic