Il Marroneto Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie 2003
Red
Brunello di Montalcino, Italy
7.6
WineSaint
Dark cherry and forest floor aromas lead into a palate that's surprisingly graceful for the challenging vintage. The wine shows lovely mineral backbone with licorice and cedar threading through ripe fruit flavors. Fine-grained tannins and bright acidity create balance, though the 2003 heat has stripped away some of the cru's typical complexity.
dark cherryforest floorlicoricecedar
Label
Il Marroneto
→Small Montalcino estate producing Brunello and Rosso from a single north-facing hillside site, including the single-vineyard Madonna delle Grazie, long regarded as one of the appellation's benchmark addresses.