Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta), Brunello Montalcino

Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta), Brunello MontalcinoConcentrated, dark fruit with top notes of tobacco leaf. Seems already a little developed. Noticeable oak on the palate but with lovely freshness too. Modernist hand and can already be approached. (WS)

Pol Roger's 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs is terrific

12 ha parcel of 75+ year old vines)

Much fresher and lighter than most

Ornellaia’s Sauvignon harvest took place in the last week of August in 2016

so they had to do a very soft vinification and an extended élevage

The palate is sharp on the entry

The Pingus vines were planted in 1929 in two different sectors of the village of La Horra

Otherwise the dense

dead-fruit flavors and bright acidity on the finish

This problem did not occur in 2012

I often find more similarities between Les Tosses and Dits del Terra than with the Arbossar

from vines in the Cote Blonde that are reportedly almost 65 years old)