A round and velvety-textured red with berry, dark-chocolate and walnut character. It’s layered and impressive. Chewy yet polished. Needs a few years, but has a bright future. Try after 2025.

Le Gode delivers a rich and dark expression of Sangiovese. The 2013 Brunello di Montalcino offers dark fruit, black currant and fresh plum backed by spice, tar and smoke. With fruit from a cooler vintage, this wine shows bright acidity and a splash of sour cherry that might make your mouth pucker on the first sip. This is a good near and medium-term drinking option from Montalcino.

The Le Gode 2012 Brunello di Montalcino opens to bright, luminous and direct aromas of cherry confit, dried blackberry, tobacco and balsam herb. This is a beautiful wine from a vintage that delivered uneven results across the appellation. It shows strength and power with tight texture, richness and firm structure derived from both the oak and the quality of the fruit. Give it a year or two to unwind in the bottle. The results are very pleasing indeed.

Aromatic and accessible, this red delivers sweet cherry, berry, earth and licorice flavors, matched to a medium-bodied frame. Tobacco and tea notes creep into the lingering finish. Drink now through 2022. 800 cases made, 500 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add

Ripe and floral, evoking rose, cherry, raspberry and spice flavors, tinged by tobacco and earth notes. Firms up on the finish, staying persistent and long. Best from 2015 through 2027.??–BS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add