Pieve Santa Restituta Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille 2020 Gaja

Professionelle Bewertungen

Robert Parker (95)

The Pieve Santa Restituta 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille shows sweet tannins and lots of fruit at its core. This wine comes from a single plot of vines on schistic galestro clay soils. Sugarille is well-integrated in terms of its oak and its acidity, and there is enough of both to prop up the fruit and keep the momentum for long cellar aging. There is a succession of purple and blue fruits on the pretty close. Production is 9,000 bottles.

James Suckling (95)

Blackberry, tobacco, cedar, dark-earth and walnut aromas follow through to a full body with chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. A little austere at the end. Very structured. Needs three or four years to soften.

Jancis Robinson (17)

Just mid ruby with orange tinges. Compact nose, savoury and a little brooding with a hint of graphite. Closed on the palate but with perfect balance between firm tannins, acidity and embryonic sour-cherry fruit. (WS)

Vinous (94)

The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille smolders with aromas of dried roses and cedar shavings alongside hints of crushed cherries, camphor and exotic spice. This is a model of purity, lifted and graceful, with ripe wild berry fruits guided by cool-toned acidity as hints of sour citrus and saline minerals build toward the close. It leaves the palate drenched in primary concentration and a layer of sweet tannins as violet inner florals and a tinge of tart blackberry fade slowly. The 2020 trades power for elegance and grace.

Jeb Dunnuck (96)

A bright ruby color, the 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino Sugarille was raised in 30- to 60-hectoliter botti for 24 months. It's expressive and layered on opening, with pure aromas of preserved red cherries, anise, delicate oak spice, and red flowers. It takes on more tension through the palate, with a refreshing spine of acidity, fine, angular tannins, and more mineral persistence. It packs in more tension compared to the Renina and has the structure to drink well over the coming 15-20 years if stored properly. While it might not have the same complexity as the 2019, this is going to be worth snapping up.