Salicutti, Brunello Montalcino Piaggione Vintage:2016 spiced and floral

spiced and floral

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

Rich and ample in the glass

it offers up an ethereal perfume of smoke

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Salicutti, Brunello Montalcino Piaggione Vintage:2016 spiced and floralThe 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