2020 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna del Suolo
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A jeweled ruby color, the 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino Vigna Del Suolo is dark and inviting with candied aromas of mixed red and black fruit, pie spices, sweet flowers, and fresh mossy earth. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the palate with a polished and finessed, ripe structure with a coating feel, although it's not heavy, retaining good freshness and a mineral underpinning of light meaty richness. It's very nicely done.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The Vigna del Suolo is a beautiful stretch of vines, with the glorious Arigano castle set in a picture-perfect background position. The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna del Suolo shows what is best described as a soft chewy center like the kind you might find in a home-baked cherry pie. It's not heavy, but the fruit comes through quite directly and with determined elegance. You also get toasted spice and a sweet hint of sauna cedar over medium-plus length. Production in this case is limited to a collectors' worthy 4,279 bottles.
Just mid ruby. Rather closed on the nose with herbal notes only. Sappy cherry fruit that is still a little monolithic lined with powdery tannins. Embryonic and with a broad tannic structure, but the shy, complex finish indicates there is more to come. (WS)
The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna del Suolo captivates as a bouquet of dried roses and crushed stone gives red plums and spice orange peels. This is surprisingly juicy and graceful in style, sweeping across the palate with silken textures yet lifted in feel as depths of red and blueberry fruits settle on the senses. The 2020 tapers off youthfully tense and structured, leaving a tart cranberry concentration and web of fine-grained tannins that flex upon the palate. The 2020 should gain weight with cellaring, but it will always be an incredibly pretty and finessed interpretation of Vigna del Suolo.