Tenuta di Sesta 'Duelecci Ovest' Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2017

93 Points Jeb Dunnuck

By contrast, the 2017 Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva Duelecci Ovest is warming with sweet tobacco, cherry liqueur, balsamic herbs, and baked earth. It is medium-bodied but has more intensity and power driving throughout, with leather, forest herbs, tea leaf, and dried cranberry. Drink 2025-2038.

The Riserva Duelecci will be produced, depending on the seasonal trend, either in the east or in the west of this vineyard: in fact the very stony soil on the east side lends itself to this destination in the cooler years, while on the west side the soil less rich in skeleton expresses its qualitative potential at its best in the driest years. The form of farming is spurred cordon and the fruit is harvested manually. Soft pressing of the grapes, duration of maceration about 25 days, alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in steel vats at a controlled temperature. It is aged 35 years in 30-35hl Slavonian oak barrels and spends 12 months in bottle prior to release.