Chiuse, Brunello Montalcino Vintage:2015

Chiuse, Brunello Montalcino Vintage:2015A ripe style, sporting black pepper, cherry, plum and licorice flavors, accented by earth and tobacco notes. Shows enough freshness and structure for aging, with a fine, lingering aftertaste. Best from 2021 through 2033. 15,000 cases made, 550 cases imported. BS

This too offers very fine quality for its level

This too is explicitly built for the long haul and is a wine that’s going to need at least a decade first

Youthful and loaded with minerality and tannin

From a parcel planted in 1964 and vinified entirely in oak

The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota stands out in this group of nine for the slightly more mineral-driven definition on the bouquet and the bigger textural impact and structure of the mouthfeel

plum and raspberry along with pretty spice and violet wisps

it may actually become less noticeable

Unusual spicy nose

The very deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Maya is shy and restrained to begin

challenged maybe

give the wine its feel

They compare this 2015 with 2009 and 2005 in terms of style but with freshness in the style of 2001 and 2010