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Talenti, Brunello di Montalcino Piero 2015
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Reviewed by: Monica Larner
Named after the founder of the winery, this inaugural release of 2,666 bottles sports a much bigger and darker frame than Talenti's classic Brunello, and it offers a whole new level of heft and intensity. The 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Piero has a wider and heavier center of gravity, with plenty of dark fruit aromas, some fresh but mostly dry. The bouquet also brings forth customary notes of tar, tilled earth, spice and tobacco. It paints a complete picture of the warm vintage, only with more styling and flashiness.
Reviewed by: James Suckling
This is quite a remarkable wine that prompts a vision of looking out over a vast orchard of glistening red cherries and red plums, weighing down gnarled, bark-scented trunks. Beneath the fragant canopy, luscious clay soils are interspersed with ferrous deposits and fresh grass stirs. Viscous layers of pure red fruit pour into the palate, soaking the mouth from top to bottom in profuse layers of spices and orange zest. The tannins have the muscle of a bodybuilder, but the acidity dances through the mouth like a ballerina. The finish is limitless.
Reviewed by: Ian D'Agata
Deep red with ruby tinges. Sassafras, black cherry jam, ink, herbs and balsamic oils on the nose and in the mouth. Wonderfully sweet, rich and deep, but with near-perfect balancing acidity to frame the wine's lush fruit. Finishes with noble tannins and palate-saturating persistence. Though not the most graceful example of Sangiovese you’ll ever taste, its power and flesh are not so extreme to make it taste caricatural or over the top. By far one of the best wines from Talenti in many years, this superb 2015 Brunello has it all; I add that readers who are more impressed with size rather than nuance will like it even more than I.
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.
