2005 Brunello di Montalcino Madonna del Piano Riserva

Wine Details
Producer

Valdicava

Place of Origin

Italy

Montalcino

Tuscany

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Sangiovese (2019 vintage)

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2016 - 2025

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Vincenzo Abbruzzese crafts some of the most powerful, intense Brunellos readers will come across. The wines always show remarkable depth, even as new wines fresh from tank. With aging, always done in cask, the wines pick up distinctly ferrous, earthy and savory notes. My preference is to drink these wines around age 10-15, as after that the track record for aging is variable. That is not to say the wines don't hold up, they do. But they don't necessarily improve beyond a certain point. Valdicava is another example where wines from my cellar were in better shape than the wines I tasted at the winery.

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My visit with Vincenzo Abbruzzese was instructive, as always. His may very well be the most consistently outstanding wines in vintages 2006- 2010. I was especially struck by a lone tank of 2010 Brunello from Montosoli, a wine that will probably ultimately be blended into the straight Brunello, but that in my view has more than enough pedigree to merit its own bottling.