#5 Top 100 Italian Wines of 2021: The purity of fruit here is so stunning with blackberry, black-cherry, black-truffle and floral aromas, as well as orange peel. It’s full-bodied and very compact with ultra fine tannins that are copious and balanced. It goes on for such a long time. The purity and precision is something else, not to mention the length and depth. So delicious now and a joy to taste. Drink or hold.
Medium dark, luminous red-ruby color. Almond paste, milk chocolate, cinnamon and nutmeg complement ripe red cherry aromas and flavors. Closes long, creamy, nicely textured and multifaceted. Made from 35 years old plus vines aged two years in 75% new oak barriques, this will prove an outstanding wine if properly cellared for another eight to ten years before popping the cork.
A light touch of oak is well-integrated with the cherry, plum and wild herb flavors in this powerful yet balanced red. A distinctive saline quality plays out on the long finish. A little less fruity than many of its peers, but no less complex. Best from 2023 through 2042. 2,300 cases made, 700 cases imported.
The Siro Pacenti 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Vecchie Vigne remains one of the most contemporary wines to emerge from this sun-kissed appellation in southern Tuscany. You taste the richness and suppleness of its dark fruit and abundant blackberry. However, the wine also offers hints of exotic spice, savory tobacco and even a touch of talc powder or buttered popcorn that comes from the oak (it sees 24 months in French barrique). Indeed, this wine's lactic signature remains strong. This adds to the distinctively creamy, viscous and rich nature of the full-bodied mouthfeel. Fruit comes from old vines ranging from 35 to 50 years old. Stylistically, some of the intricacies of Sangiovese are sacrificed in the name of texture and density. Some 25,000 bottles were released in January 2020.
Menthol, pine resin and forest-floor aromas mix with whiff of iris. Firmly structured and youthfully austere, the palate offers dried black cherry, licorice and black tea alongside assertive, fine-grained tannins. It closes on a coffee-bean note. Drink 2023–2030.
Technical Details
BlendSangiovese Grosso
CountryItaly
RegionTuscany
AppellationBrunello di Montalcino
Alcohol14.5%
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Siro Pacenti Brunello di Montalcino Vecchie Vigne 2015
Sangiovese Blends | Italy
JS100, VN96, WS95, WA94, WE94
$109.95 | 750mL
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Just in! James Suckling's #5 Top 100 Italian Wines of 2021: Again, we are blessed with a small allocation of a rare wine usually heavily allocated to restaurants. INCREDIBLE, OLD-VINE Brunello and a fine price if we do say so. For a 100-pointer from the world-class ‘15 vintage? What can we say except MOVE QUICK! This is quintessential modern Brunello that delivers everything you could want and more. In short, it's a beauty that will be hard to resist in the near term, but provide decades of enjoyment with some time in the cellar.
Siro Pacenti bought his estate and planted his first vines in 1970, all of which still thrive today. The property is north of Montalcino, in Pelagrilli, and overlooks Siena with 22 hectares of Sangiovese in fresh, clay soils. In 1988, Giancarlo Pacenti took over operations at the winery, producing the first Rosso and Brunello di Montalcino that same year. At the beginning of the Nineties, the estate expanded to include land south of Montalcino (Piancornello) where Giancarlo’s grandfather had planted five hectares of Sangiovese in the 1960s.
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About the Producer
The Pacenti estate was established in 1970, with the purchase of the property north of Montalcino (Pelagrilli) by Siro, who then proceeded to plant some important vineyards, which are still there today, in the fresh, clay soils of the land overlooking Siena.