2017 Brunello di Montalcino Sassetti Livio Pertimali

95P+: One of the founding wineries of the Brunello Consortium, an ancient wisdom that proceeds in the line of tradition to realize wines of excellence. The nose is neat and intriguing, with small red fruits, touches of red currant, star anise and undergrowth, with a finish of freshness, on the notes of wild mint. The mouthfeel is juicy and dense, closing with officinal return.

Profound and extremely complex showing notes of black prunes, blackberries, salted caramel, black tea leaves, camphor, mandarin rind, chinotto and Indian spices. Full bodied, fine grain, rounded tannins and a juicy, fluid finale that closes both smooth and dynamic. It closes elegant and modern and shows great workmanship in a difficult year. Better from 2022.

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Profound and extremely complex showing notes of black prunes, blackberries, salted caramel, black tea leaves, camphor, mandarin rind, chinotto and Indian spices. Full bodied, fine grain, rounded tannins and a juicy, fluid finale that closes both smooth and dynamic. It closes elegant and modern and shows great workmanship in a difficult year. Better from 2022.

Black cherry and mushroom with some dried flower undertones. Full-bodied with fine velvety tannins and a juicy and succulent finish. The tannins are very polished for a 2017. Try from 2023 onwards.

The 2017 Brunello di Montalcino makes itself known with a burst of dusty black raspberries, mentholated herbs, crushed ashen stone and dark flowery undergrowth. Silky-smooth and round in feel, it impresses with a cooling wave of mint-infused wild berry fruits mixed with balsamic spices and wood-smoked salts. While the 2017 doesn’t have the weight and density you’d expect from such a young Pertimali, yet it makes up for it with grace and purity, leaving a light coating of tannins and minerals to mingle throughout the finale. In order to uphold their standards of quality, production was down by a whopping 50%.

The Sassetti Livio Pertimali 2017 Brunello di Montalcino is quite bright and lifted with cherries and fresh fruits that pop from the glass. The primary intensity is radiant in this wine, setting it apart from many of its peers. It covers the palate with mid-weight intensity, nice acidity and silky tannins. The brightness you get here is so attractive now, so I see little reason to wait much longer before pulling this cork

Her er der brunello fra @pertimalisassetti i årgang 2017. Den lægger ud med små-brettet næse på toppen af blomme, parfumeret kirsebær og anis. Munden har knusende saftig syre og purunge tanniner, men smager skønt allerede.