The 2013 Brunello di Montalcino Paolus is a hearty and robust Sangiovese with dark garnet tonality. The wine is redolent of dried cherry and blackberry with layers of smoke, tar and spicy tobacco. The fruit is slightly evolved. The wine shows elegance in the mouth with firm tannins and good structure. For a Brunello, you get decent value here. Some 30,000 bottles were made.