2011 Salicutti Piaggione Brunello Di Montalcino Italy Glenfarclas

2011 Salicutti Piaggione Brunello Di Montalcino Italy GlenfarclasThe Salicutti 2011 Brunello di Montalcino Piaggione is a mid weight red wine with a deep and lasting aromatic impact. The wine offers very vertical or lifted aromas of dried fruit, cedar wood, tilled earth, cigar, cola and medicinal herb. It also shows a lot of balsamic character, and this is something I often recognize in warm vintage Brunello, while it offers less primary fruit. The character here is ethereal and fragrant, shedding any monolithic

An opulent Cognac

and pomegranate syrup

full of zing

1980s Remy Martin 3 Star Fine Champagne Cognac

Light vanilla

Finish: we’re much closer to the ‘classical’ Lagavulin now

Nose: A sweet

Climens is one of only a handful of châteaux in Bordeaux that produces its wines from only one grape: Semillon

making wine this way at the price-level is almost unheard of

The finish is soft

then just touches of oak spices

Naturally this chardonnay has classic notes – white lilies