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Talenti, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2016
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Reviewed by: Monica Larner
The Talenti 2016 Brunello di Montalcino is a balanced and symmetrical wine with bright red cherry on the one hand and pretty spice and balsam herb on the other. The wine pours from the bottle with dark color saturation and ruby highlights. It shows no signs of fading, and that bright color intensity is a common thread in this vintage. There is a good amount of Sangiovese acidity that reinforces the lifted and buoyant style achieved here. It ages in both tonneau and botte for 30 months. Production is 35,000 bottles.
Reviewed by: Eric Guido
The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino boasts a striking display of balsamic-tinged cherry and autumnal spice with a twist of sour citrus really appealing to the senses. It’s silky and pliant with a gorgeous display of ripe red and hints of black fruit. There’s a sweet and sour element here that I find quite attractive, as the 2016 gains a tactile feel toward the close through a mix of brisk acids and rounded tannins. The length and classic structure on the finish completes the expression, leaving dark florals and mineral earth tones. Talenti remains one of the best values in age-worthy Brunello in the market. That said, it’s also worth checking in on a bottle early to enjoy all of its primary intensity.
Reviewed by: James Suckling
A pretty and solid 2016 Brunello with cherry, orange-peel and walnut aromas and flavors. It’s medium-to full-bodied with chewy tannins and a walnut and berry aftertaste. Give it two or three years to soften and come together. Try after 2022.
About the Producer
The Talenti winery was founded in 1980, when Pierluigi Talenti decided to buy the property and land that had so fascinated him and made him fall in love since the fifties, a period in which he decided to move from the mountains of Romagna to the sweet and sunny hills of Montalcino. Since 1999 the property is followed by the family under the direction of the Riccardo Talenti, who combines respect for tradition with a search for new technologies and an eye to the future continues the work with the same passion.Currently, the company has a total area of 40 hectares of which 21 hectares of vineyards, 16 are cultivated in Sangiovese, partly selected in the territory of Montalcino directly over the years by Pierluigi, from which he obtained a product of great character and personality.
