Pretty cherries and chocolate with some violets that follow through to a medium body with fine tannins and an orange-peel finish. Refined and pretty. Drink or hold.

Fresh nose with savory berries, dried herbs, smoked tarragon and nutmeg. Weighty and broad for the vintage. Dusty tannins come together at the end, giving a caressing grip to the finish. Better from 2024.

This elegant, juicy red packs a core of pure cherry shaded by accents of wild herbs, licorice and earth. Charming and harmonious, with the fruit echoing on the lingering aftertaste, revealing a mineral element at the very end. Best from 2025 through 2042. 1,080 cases made, 300 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add

The Val di Suga 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Poggio al Granchio (with 10,000 bottles made) opens to a pretty dark appearance and a much brighter quality of fruit (compared to Vigna del Lago) with plump cherry, black-currant and dark plum. Fruit comes from a higher elevation site at 450 meters above sea level, and this might make the difference. The wine is rather lean in terms of mouthfeel, with dusty tannins and chalky mineral sensations. Its structure is soft, generally speaking, and the wine is ready to go straight out of the gate.

Black currant, cherry and plum flavors abound in this red, accented by licorice, tar, menthol, iron and tobacco notes. Pure, detailed and harmonious, with spice and mineral elements lingering on the long aftertaste. Almost approachable now, but better in three to five years. Best from 2024 through 2048. 250 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add