Pieve Santa Restituta - Sugarille Brunello di Montalcino 2020 (750ml)
Price: $292.99
| Producer | Pieve Santa Restituta |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Brunello di Montalcino |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 8021 |
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Powerful and complex aromas of dark, ripe fruits— blackberry and plums—complemented by an intriguing note of petrichor (rain on dry earth). The palate is fresh, with silky, enveloping tannins that are both dense and elegant, showing excellent persistence. The finish is juicy with a savory touch.
Pieve Santa Restituta Description
Pieve Santa Restituta is Gaja’s estate in Montalcino, purchased in 1994. It is the family’s first expansion outside the Barbaresco and Barolo areas since its establishment in 1859. Sugarille is the name given to the parish estate, as a result of the inventory drawn up in 1547 by Giovanni Sampieri. Sugarille is the name both of the vineyard and the wine.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The Pieve Santa Restituta 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille shows sweet tannins and lots of fruit at its core. This wine comes from a single plot of vines on schistic galestro clay soils. Sugarille is well-integrated in terms of its oak and its acidity, and there is enough of both to prop up the fruit and keep the momentum for long cellar aging. There is a succession of purple and blue fruits on the pretty close.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
Macerated cherry, plum, fruitcake and iron flavors signal this ripe, brooding red. Offers plenty of fruit and a glycerol texture midpalate. Backed by broad, dusty tannins, leaving a clipped feel on the gripping finish despite the lingering essence of sweet fruit.
James Suckling: 95 Points
Blackberry, tobacco, cedar, dark-earth and walnut aromas follow through to a full body with chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. A little austere at the end. Very structured.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Sugarille smolders with aromas of dried roses and cedar shavings alongside hints of crushed cherries, camphor and exotic spice. This is a model of purity, lifted and graceful, with ripe wild berry fruits guided by cool-toned acidity as hints of sour citrus and saline minerals build toward the close. It leaves the palate drenched in primary concentration and a layer of sweet tannins as violet inner florals and a tinge of tart blackberry fade slowly. The 2020 trades power for elegance and grace.
