Tasting Notes
Average Rating 96
Sassetti Livio Pertimali Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2016
A dark, brooding beauty, Sassetti Pertimali’s 2016 Brunello Riserva is a stunning achievement. This wine comes from the best grapes in the estate’s best vineyards, and it spends 48 long months aging before bottling, making it a true evocation of its benchmark vintage. This Brunello Riserva has it all — mesmerizing balance, spellbinding intensity, the silkiest texture, and the kind of sustained pleasure that effortlessly takes you from initial sip to lingering finish. Crushed herbs, dried rose petals, sun-warmed loam, cigar wrapper, and smoke frame the pure Sangiovese Grosso fruits in this sublime wine; a sweet inner perfume complicated by savory underpinnings echo on the mid-palate. Cellar for as long as you can stand it before diving into this knockout wine!
