2015 Ciacci Piccolomini

Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Vigna di Pianrosso Santa Caterina d'Oro

 

100 JS / 97 WA

 

Only $119.00/750ml (Pre-Arrival) - Buy Now

47% below average market price

 

The 2015 Brunello Riserva category generally out-performed the 2016 Riservas - Ciacci put on a breath-taking performance for the vintage!

 

The Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona estate is located on the south east slope of the municipality of Montalcino, close to the medieval village of Castelnuovo dell’Abate and to the famous Romanesque Abbey of Sant’Antimo, which dates back to the 11th century. 

 
 
 
2015 Ciacci Piccolomini Brunello di Montalcino
Riserva Vigna di Pianrosso Santa Caterina d'Oro
 
100 JS / 97 WA / 96 WE / 95 DE

$119.00/750ml (Pre-arrival) Buy Now

 

The opulence of fruit and complexity of earth, meat, mushroom and cedar is breathtaking. It’s full-bodied, deep and powerful with so much intensity and depth. Chewy and layered, it goes on for minutes. Give it even more time. Try after 2023. James Suckling

 

The 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna di Pianrosso Santa Caterina d'Oro is a fine and delicate wine that cleverly delivers the intensity of the vintage but without the heaviness or the ripeness. This wine holds back, just enough, to affirm its poised balance in terms of fruit richness, texture and tannic structure. It shows symmetry throughout. Dark cherry fruit, cassis, plum, lavender and campfire ash set the tone. The mouthfeel is thickly woven and generous, more so than the more linear and focused 2016 Brunello Pianrosso (that I preferred by a tiny margin). This special Riserva represents a 11,000-bottle production. Monica Larner – The Wine Advocate

 

Fragrant, full bodied and refined, this opens with aromas of new leather vanilla, baked plum and camphor. The palate shows an enviable combination of structure, finesse and length, doling out raspberry jam, ripe black cherry, vanilla and licorice enveloped in firm, refined tannins. Kerin O’Keefe – Wine Enthusiast

 

A selection of bunches from Ciacci Piccolomini’s iron-rich Pianrosso vineyard in Montalcino’s southeast, this sees a long maceration and ageing in variously sized used Slavonian oak barrels. It strikes a fine balance of generous ripeness with freshness and juiciness. Pure strawberry, cherry and raspberry meet lilac, rose and an underlying minerality. It's fluid and almost easy to drink, though long, powdery tannins expand across the palate giving textural complexity. It leaves the mouth clean but wanting more with an appetising blood orange finish. MM – Decanter

 

 

 

 

 
Sincerely,

Ron van Vlaardingen  
Fine Wine Sales Director

Grand Vin Wine Merchants

2950 32nd Ave SW · Suite A Tumwater, Washington 98512 | Office: 360.350.4896 x 2

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