La Cerbaiola di Giulio Salvioni Salvioni Brunello di Montalcino 2020 750ml

A jeweled red color, the 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino La Cerbaiola is wonderfully detailed on the nose with aromas of ripe cherries, cedar, dried roses, fresh leather, and mint. It carries beautifully onto the palate, with a medium to full-bodied frame and ripe tannins woven together with warming spice and fresh acidity. Everything you hope for, with lovely purity and fantastic length, this superb offering from Salvioni is complete and a benchmark wine for the vintage. Drink 2027–2050. 9900 bottles produced. (Audrey Frick)

The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino is an immaculate beauty, tempting the imagination with vivid accents of violet and lavender before evolving into a menagerie of incense, cloves, dried roses and black cherries. It sweeps across the palate with grace, silken to the core, with a pretty inner sweetness quickly offset by waves of tart red berries and savory spice. Fine-grain tannins are expertly interwoven with a resonance of licorice and blood orange. A residual bump of vibrant acidity maintains an energetic feel, imparting this with a youthfully giving character while remaining structured and incredibly long. Collectors will have a hard time keeping their hands off long enough to watch the 2019 properly mature. (Eric Guido)

The 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino is one of the standouts of the vintage and is a youthful ruby/magenta color. On the nose, it's floral and perfumed with aromas of violets, black cherries, graphite, rosemary, and fresh sage. It's seamless on the palate, with a weightless feel in a medium to full-bodied frame, and has plush tannins, refreshing acidity, and a haunting finish. This stunning wine should drink well over the next 20 years.

The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino seduces from the glass with a complex and layered bouquet as pine shavings and mint lift black raspberry aromas. It features a bouquet with whiffs of dried orange peels, saddle leather and Tuscan dust. This hovers across the palate, graceful and serene, casting a silken feel and remaining seemingly weightless and refined. It showcases ripe red and hints of blue fruit complemented by violet inner florals. The energy within is spellbinding, especially when combined with the sapidity of its fruit. The 2020 tapers off long and fresh, with sweet tannins that make for a perfect punctuation to the experience. Salvioni found a beautiful balance in the 2020 vintage that shows no sign of the warm conditions one might expect.<br/><br/>