Brunello di Montalcino
Uccelliera

Brunello di Montalcino


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2006
12x75cl
DP
£820.16

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Broking
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2010
12x75cl
DP
£1,486.16


Uccelliera, Brunello di Montalcino, 2006

2006

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Uccelliera, Brunello di Montalcino, 2006

Intense, perfumed red fruits, juicy flavours of berries and currants mixed with tones of saddle leather, tobacco and sweet Asian spices, rich, long but elegant with a good bright finish. This strikes a great balance between corpulence and poise. A blend of vines with various exposures and soils centred on Castelnuovo del Abate on the south-east side of Montalcino. The wine undergoes both fermentations in steel tank, followed by ageing for 36 months in a mixture of oak barrel and larger casks, then an additional eight months’ finishing in bottle.

ABV:
15%
91/100
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous

(15% on label): Good deep red. Black fruits, licorice, black pepper, spices, underbrush and minerals on the nose. Dense and sweet but also nicely structured, offering good energy for such a creamy wine. A bit unwieldy today owing to its high alcohol, but the wine's powerful tannins are nicely supported by ripe, deep fruit. Give this at least four or five years to come into harmony.
Date Reviewed:
07/2011

specifications

country:
Italy

region:
Tuscany

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Uccelliera

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Allergen Information:
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Uccelliera

Uccelliera

The estate's name, Uccelliera, which means aviary in Italian, most likely stems from the middle ages when falcons were raised in the area. The owner, Andrea Cortonesi, is the only son of a farming family and has worked in the fields since he was a teenager with his father. In 1986 he managed to purchase 4ha of house and garden including half a hectare of old vines, and straightaway he planted two hectares of vines and now farms a total of 6ha of vines. The estate comprises vineyards with various exposures and soils centred in Castelnuovo del Abate on the south-east side of Montalcino. Vineyard managment is as natural as possible and there is minimum human intervention in the cellars. The wines are fermented in steel then aged in a mixture of large oak cask and smaller barriques (36 months for the Brunello) followed by several months finishing in bottle. These are thoroughly complete, moreish and rewarding wines from an estate that, in the last 5-10 years, has become one of the region's very best.

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