2001 - Brunello di Montalcino Rennina, Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja)

The 2001 Brunello di Montalcino Rennina is incredibly pretty, displaying a deep and vibrant red color with orange hues. It’s feminine in style and sweetly scented, opening with notes of tobacco and mint evolving into savory cherry sauce and hints of clove. It is silky and lifted in feel, with zesty acids giving way to a cascade of taut red fruits and minerals. Plum, inner earth tones, roses and a tug of residual tension defines the finale, as the Rennina tapers off slowly. While there’s plenty of energy and balance, the 2001’s remaining wood tannin may begin to overwhelm its fruit in due time. My best advice is to enjoy this within the next three to five years. Sampled from the winery's cellar.