2017 Brunello di Montalcino

The 2017 Brunello di Montalcino wafts up with vibrancy and spunk, showing woodland berries and herbs with crushed wet stone and undergrowth in an incredibly fresh and lively expression. It’s soft and pliant upon entry, enveloping with its saturating raspberry fruits and inner spice, as mineral tension builds, giving way to sweet, elegant tannins and inner florals. The 2017 shows a more slender yet well-muscled interpretation of the 2017 vintage, but it remains remarkably pretty and balanced throughout. Due to the vintage conditions and severe selection, production was down by 12%.

- Eric Guido (10/2021)

This 2017 Brunello di Montalcino from Il Marroneto has sweet, ripe, red cherries, balsamic and green herb aromas all wrapped in warm, spicy notes. The spicy notes are dominating the nose a little right now and the aromas are more big brush strokes and less filigree than the 2016 and the 2018. There are some fresh earth, truffle, and wax notes and it seems less floral and fragrant at this stage. There is even a hint of sundried fruit. On the palate again there is a wonderful, flowing texture with a silky viscosity that is extremely appealing, in keeping with many 2017s the tannins are touch drier and crunchier on the finish but this is a very attractive and accurate reflection of the hot, dry 2017 vintage.

- Susan Hulme (03/2023)

Alessandro Mori's Il Marroneto 2017 Brunello di Montalcino opens to a very distinguished and unique character that makes this wine easy to recognize in a lineup of Brunello. This hot and dry growing season made for more powerful aromas and sometimes riper flavors in the appellation, generally speaking. But this magically lean-bodied wine follows its own path, and the warmth of the summer seems to have cemented almost exotic aromas of bay leaf, crushed flower, campfire ash and iron ore. The wine is exceedingly silky and elegant, but instead of opulence, you get streamlined tension accompanied by lifted, immediate aromas of fruit, flowers and light spice.

- Monica Larner (02/2022)