Il Palazzone’s 2001 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is an outstanding effort. Full-bodied and intense, it presents an exciting array of sweet dark fruit, smoke, tar, licorice and toasted oak, with notable persistence and an engaging, generous personality. The sweetness carries through to the finish, where an inviting note of freshness rounds out the close. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2016. Importer: Domaine Select, New York, NY; tel. (212) 279-0799

Shows fantastic aromas of crushed blackberry, with beautiful undertones of cream and vanilla. Full-bodied, with loads of new oak. Perhaps a little too much. But has outstanding fruit, with polished tannins. Best after 2009. 295 cases imported.??–JS??Region: Italy / Brunello di Montalcino Select to Add