Livio Sassetti - Brunello di Montalcino Pertimali 2016 (750ml)
Price: $85.00
| Producer | Livio Sassetti |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Montalcino |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Sku | 2729 |
| Size | 750ml |
Sassetti Livio Pertimali is a wine producer based in Montalcino Tuscany known particularly for its Brunello wines. Livio Sassetti was one of the founders of the Consorzio del Brunello di Montalcino in 1967. Today the business is managed by his son Lorenzo. All Brunello di Montalcino wine is made exclusively from Sangiovese grapes grown on the slopes around Montalcino – a classic Tuscan hilltop village 20 miles (30km) south of Siena. The word Brunello translates roughly as 'little dark one' and is the local vernacular name for Sangiovese Grosso the large-berried form of Sangiovese which grows in the area."
James Suckling: 100 Points
Blackberries black walnuts and black cherries as well as loads of chewy tannins. Some smoked wood wood tannins and even black truffles. It?s full-bodied and powerful with loads going on. It just keeps growing on the palate. So much wet earth and black olive at the finish with porcini mushrooms too. Needs time to soften. Crazy finish. Try after 2025.
Vinous: 97 Points
If checking in early make sure to give the towering 2016 Brunello di Montalcino from Pertimali plenty of time to stretch its legs. It’s incredibly shy and backward upon first pulling the cork coming to life nearly an hour later and never taking a step back from there on out. A beguiling display of spiced orange peels sour cherry and mint pull you closer to the glass where notes of cardamom cinnamon clove and sage reside. It’s dangerously soft and supple at first sip with fleshy red fruits and sweet spices blanketing the palate; yet beneath this soothing mix a complex web of minerals and fine tannin slowly saturate. That said there’s a lively bolt of acidity which maintains freshness in spite of the 2016’s heroic structure. Inner florals resonate along with a hint of white pepper as it tapers off with classic austerity. This is a gorgeous vintage for Pertimali. (Drink between 2024-2040)
Wine Enthusiast: 97 Points
Red berry violet and menthol aromas fill the glass alongside a whiff of underbrush in this full-bodied red. The tightly wound palate offers Marasca cherry licorice tobacco and a hint of game set against a backbone of assertive fine-grained tannins. Flashes of bright acidity keep it balanced. Drink 2024?2036. KERIN O?KEEFE
Jeb Dunnuck: 95 Points
From vines in the historic Montosoli area in the north the 2016 exhibits some rusticity with saddle leather cherry pit licorice and celery seed. There is concentration on the midpalate with drying tannins and notes of amaro and dried orange peel. Classic and savory the 2016 has a long finish. Drink 2024-2034.
Wine Spectator: 94 Points
Muddled plum and cherry flavors are enhanced by leather black tea and iron notes in this sleek yet beefy red. Chewy tannins line the finish yet this remains lively and finds a nice equilibrium in the end. Best from 2024 through 2047. 4600 cases made 2000 cases imported.
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