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Luce della Vite, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2016
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Description
Luce della Vite, Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany, Red, 2006
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
From the Frescobaldi family of Florence, the Luce della Vite (or Tenuta Luce) 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Luce is a wine of depth and intensity. This 2016 vintage goes further and offers more substance than most of the recent vintages we've seen. It reveals a dark color and appearance with cocktail cherry, balsam spice and a touch of white chocolate. The tannins are dry, but the wine compensates with a good dose of that concentrated fruit richness that defines this classic vintage. This is a 30,000-bottle release.
Reviewed by: Eric Guido
The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Luce from Frescobaldi lifts up with a heady display of medicinal cherries, cinnamon and cloves with a dusting of cedar and white smoke. It’s silky and seamless, coasting effortlessly across the palate with ease, while gaining tactile grip as notes of tart raspberry and minerals slowly settle in. There’s ample acidity to balance this large-scaled effort, as it unabashedly tapers off to a black currant-cocoa-mocha-coffee mixture throughout the structured finale. The 2016 Luce della Vite had me right up until the finish, where it unfortunately leaves a harsh impression of wood instead of fruit.
About the Producer
Luce della Vite is located in the Montalcino production area in Tuscany, Italy, southwest of the medieval town. It is one of the wineries with the best reputation and reputation in the Montalcino region. The winery is located at an altitude of 350 to 420 meters above sea level, making it the highest winery in the Montalcino region, with 192 hectares of vineyards. Most of the vines in the vineyard were planted in 1997, with only a few planted in 1977. The planting density of vines is 6,100 per hectare. The vineyards are basically only planted with Merlot and Sangiovese, a unique Italian variety. The winery strictly limits the yield of grapes to ensure the quality of the grapes and enable the grapes to better reflect the local terroir characteristics. The winery has always adopted sustainable farming concepts to ensure healthy grapevines. The winery keeps yields low in order to produce wines with varietal character and expression of the terroir of the vineyards.
