The 2001 Brunellos show the pedigree of the superior vintage. Gaja’s 2001 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille is the more potent of the Brunellos. It displays a darker color along with notes of tar, smoke, spices, toasted oak and dark fruit on a full-bodied frame with terrific expansiveness and length on the palate. A lingering note of licorice frames the finish of this beautiful, deeply expressive Brunello. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2021. Importer: Paterno Imports, Lake Bluff, IL; tel. (847) 604-8900

The 2001 Brunellos show the pedigree of the superior vintage. Gaja’s 2001 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille is the more potent of the Brunellos. It displays a darker color along with notes of tar, smoke, spices, toasted oak and dark fruit on a full-bodied frame with terrific expansiveness and length on the palate. A lingering note of licorice frames the finish of this beautiful, deeply expressive Brunello. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2021.Importer: Paterno Imports, Lake Bluff, IL; tel. (847) 604-8900

Aromas of dried fruit, smoky wood and hints of red licorice. Full-bodied, with lots of jammy fruit and a long, soft finish. Big and juicy. This needs time. Best after 2009. 1,110 cases made, 250 cases imported.??–JS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add

A gorgeous single-vineyard Brunello from Angelo Gaja’s Tuscan estate, this wine is slightly more round and fleshy than Rennina but equally as complex and elegant. This is truly a great wine with velvet-like smoothness on the palate and intense black fruit and balsam aromas. It’s pensive yet yielding, refined and powerful all at once. ——M.L.(2/1/2007)—— 93