2019 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille
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Tasting notes
The 2019 Sugarille is a brooding, powerful wine – full of gamey notes, wild herbs and iron-edged fruit. It’s broad and intense, with bramble, plummy fruit at its heart. Full, layered and destined for a long life.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
Eric Guido, Vinous
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A bright magenta/ruby color, the 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino Sugarille is floral and expressive with aromas of wild roses, raspberry liqueur, blood orange, and fresh pine. Medium-bodied, it’s graceful throughout, with refined tannins, even, mouthwatering acidity, and a salty finish. It keeps you coming back for more and is going to benefit from at least another year in bottle. Drink 2025-2040. Pieve Santa Restituta is the Montalcino estate of Piedmont’s Gaja family.
The Pieve Santa Restituta 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille reveals a finely chiseled quality, with direct and lifted fruit, that gives this wine an angular or delineated personality. This impression is reinforced by delicate mineral notes of crushed stone that fold into dark fruit, sweet plum, black cherry and earthy iris root. The wine is elegant, but it also shows lots of umami or textural deliciousness thanks to the natural ripeness and concentration of the fruit. Give this wine more time in bottle.
Extremely perfumed and intense with lilacs, violets, purple fruits and black cherries. Full-bodied and very structured with punchy tannins that give this great length and intensity. This is a great one for the cellar. Try after 2027.
About the producer
Gaja has been at the forefront of the Piedmont wine scene for many years and is Barbaresco’s most decorated producer. The winery has received a record number of Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri awards – the highest accolade from Italy’s leading wine publication.