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Red Bottle overall rating:
6/7 |
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The flagrance is intense and persistent, with
fruit aromas like berry, plum, cherry and
aromatic wood. The flavour is dry, warm, slightly
tannic, strong, harmonious and persistent.
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Brunello owes its depth
to Montalcino's micro-climate, which is significantly
warmer and drier than Chianti's hillsides.
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Picture
on top: MICHELANGELO
Creation of Eve - 1509/1510 - Fresco, Cappella
Sistina, Vatican |
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A
bit of history:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(1475 - 1564) |
The
Sistine Chapel Ceiling - "In order to prepare
for this enormous work, Michelangelo drew numerous
figure studies and cartoons, devising scores of
figure types and poses. These awesome, mighty images,
demonstrating Michelangelo's masterly understanding
of human anatomy and movement, changed the course
of painting in the West. ."
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Michelangelo, arguably one of the most inspired
creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo
da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High
Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter,
and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his
contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in
general.
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For posterity Michelangelo has always remained one
of the small group of the most exalted artists,
who have been felt to express, like Shakespeare
or Beethoven, the tragic experience of humanity
with the greatest depth and universal scope. |
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The colour of this 'Brunello
di montalcino' is deep red, clear and brilliant.
As the wine is ageing the intensity of the colour
gradates garnet red. We suggest you to serve the wine
in wide and rounded crystal glasses in order to appreciate
the harmonious bouquet and at a temperature around
18°c. Open the bottle some hours before drinking
the wine to appreciate its pureness. Serve it to red
meat, wild animals, mushrooms, truffle or cheeses.
| Region: |
TUSCANY
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| Label: |
BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO
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| Winery: |
La Fornace
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| Alcoholic vol.: |
13,5%
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| Residual
sugar: |
1,6 g/l
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| Acids: |
5,25 g/l (tartaric)
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| Grape varieties: |
Sangiovese "Grosso"
(100%)
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| Production: |
9700 bottles
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| Aging: |
at least 2 years in oak wine
butts, 6 months in barriques, 6 months in bottles,
this
wine is put on the market five years after the
grape-harvest |
| Bottle: |
750 ml bottle
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| Packing: |
6 bottle
box - cilyndrical bottle.
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| Code: |
RBFO01
- 1 x 75 ml bottle
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Loris
says: |
Something
to sniff for days...
With the passing of the years,
it steadily acquires greater fragrance, a more velvety
flavor, increased harmony and an odor that is delicate
and at the same time quite intense.
A little dry and tannic, but rich enough to provide
some mouth-coating pleasure. |
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Marco
says: |
Precise
and elegant...
It is precise and elegant, dry
and lingering. In feel, very similar to a top Bordeaux,
with cassis and dark cherry flavors, a rich and
evolving attack, and youthful dusty tannins in the
finish. Outstanding with beef. La Fornace made a
very good job indeed. |
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W.S.
says: |
Wine
Spectator : 90 points
"Brunello di Montalcino 1998
- Lovely floral, berry and mineral aromas follow
through to medium-bodied palate, with super well-integrated
tannins and a long finish. A lovely and harmonious
Brunello. Best after 2003." |
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Did
you know?... |
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A
bit of history::
BRUNELLO HISTORY
(Find more on our web site...) |
The first great vintage, officially,
was the 1888 Brunello, of which five bottles still
exist. Their contents are perfectly preserved, a
proof of the wine's great powers of longevity.
In a country like Italy, which has been producing
wines for about 3,500 years, a Brunello di Montalcino
can be considered a modern invention. It is not,
in fact, a wine made in homage to local traditions
but the result of the studies of a single winemaker,
Ferruccio Biondi-Santi. Around 1870, Ferruccio Biondi-Santi
began to set out in his vineyards a clone of the
Sangiovese variety known as Brunello.
The young viticulturist had noted that a subvariety
of Sangiovese, referred to as Grosso to distinguish
it from the breed that had originated in the Chianti
area and that produced smaller berries, was more
resistant to attacks by phylloxera, which was then
ravaging the vineyards of the district. In the end,
Biondi-Santi completely replanted his vineyards
and was soon able to produce an entirely satisfactory
wine made from a single variety.
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