Il Marroneto Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie 2009 Color:Red This 2015 Smith & Perry

This 2015 Smith & Perry Pinot Noir is perfectly balanced

Chorey les Beaune is a supple wine

the oak was well integrated with the palate and didn’t overdue itself – the wine still felt both fresh and full simultaneously

Charred coal briquettes

Lillet has been made in the town of Podensac in southern Bordeaux since 1887 from a blend of barrel-aged merlot and cabernet sauvignon wines

Il Marroneto Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie 2009 Color:Red This 2015 Smith & PerryThe 2009 Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie delivers the impeccable bounty and precision you should expect from Il Marroneto. The wine opens with beautiful dark intensity and ripe notes of dried raspberry and creme de cassis. It definitely shows the ripe side of the warm 2009 vintage. Thanks to a very long period in oak (41 months) the wine shows the merits of slow and careful barrel evolution. Pretty lacings of chopped mint and licorice add