Il Palazzone Brunello Di Montalcino 2020 (1.5L) *
Product price
$160.99
Description
Brunello di Montalcino is Sangiovese in its most serious guise, grown in the hills south of Siena and held back for extended aging before release. This bottling from Il Palazzone comes from the 2020 vintage, a red built more for grace than for weight, with the perfume and finesse the appellation can deliver when it leans toward the lifted end of the style.
Expect cherry and red berry fruit edged with sweet autumnal spice, pipe tobacco, and a cool trace of mint, with a floral, rose-petal note running through it. The texture is silken and open, moving across the palate easily before fine, crystalline tannins arrive to add grip near the close. Licorice and clove linger on a finish of medium length. Ethereal and aromatic rather than heavy, it drinks well now.
Product Details
| Category | Wine |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Brunello di Montalcino |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Producer | Il Palazzone |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 1.5 L |
| Subtype | Still |
Expert Reviews
A gorgeous blend of cherry-berry fruits, sweet autumnal spices, pipe tobacco and hints of mint waft up from the 2020 Brunello di Montalcino. Seamless and silken, it washes across the palate with ease, displaying rose-tinged red berry fruits as crystalline tannins add tactile grip toward the close. A staining of licorice and clove is left to linger as the 2020 tapers off lightly structured and with medium length. The balance here is beautiful— the 2020 comes across lifted and ethereal yet still complex. (Vinous)
The Il Palazzone 2020 Brunello di Montalcino shows dried fruit aromas with a hint of candied orange peel and a distant floral note of rose potpourri. The wine is open-knit and accessible with finely textured tannins. It is a one-dimensional wine, however, from a vintage that shows less complexity overall. Exactly 16,176 bottles and other large formats were made. (Wine Advocate, November 2024)