The 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino has a deep brick red color and is ripe with aromas of black cherries, tarry earth, rosemary, lavender, and sweet tobacco. Medium to full-bodied, it saturates the palate with ripe tannins, savory notes of tea leaf, even acidity, and a very well-balanced finish. It boasts a good deal of depth and is going to offer a wide window for enjoyment over the coming 12-15 years.

Blueberries with violets, dark olives and a touch of charcoal. The palate has voluminous, pretty fruit restrained by some tight yet polished tannins. Concludes compact and firm. Best after 2026.

Sourced from a small 1.5-hectare, single vineyard site in the Capanna area of Montalcino at 430 meters elevation, the 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino Campo. Del Drago pours a jeweled ruby red color and takes things up a notch in terms of its structure. On the nose, it reveals layered and spiced notes of cinnamon, menthol, ripe red cherries, orange peel, and toasted cedar. The palate is salty and mouth watering all the way through, with gripping ripe tannins, refreshing acidity, and a sustained finish. It demands a few years in the cellar time before drinking over the following 15 or more years. Drink 2027-2047.

The deep ruby red 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva Millecento 1100 is layered with aromas of grenadine, sanguine iron-rich earth, blood orange, and toasted spices. Medium to full-bodied, it offers a weightless feel on the palate, with ripe and supple tannins, even acidity, and notes of polished leather and saline on the finish. It has a seamless, balanced feel and is drinking well now, but it will go the distance over the coming 20 years.

The single vineyard bottling of Campo del Drago from Castiglion del Bosco comes from a high elevation parcel of their Brunello vineyards. It was first bottled on its own in the 1999 vintage. Because of the higher elevation, this wine comes in just a touch lower in octane than the 2020 117 Normale, tipping the scales at fourteen percent octane. It is handled identically in the cellars to the regular bottling, with fermentation done with indigenous yeasts and aging done in twenty percent new oak. The 2020 Campo del Drago delivers a superb aromatic constellation of red and black cherries, plums, brown spices, Cuban cigars, a mineral-infused base of soil, incipient notes of nutskin and a delicate framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a stunning core of fruit, great mineral undertow, fine-grained tannins and impeccable balance on the long, seamless, complex and beautifully vibrant finish. Simply outstanding juice in the making and one of the best young Brunellos I have tasted in quite some time! 2037-2075+.