Tenuta Friggiali Brunello di Montalcino 2016

Tradiitonal and meditative BDM. The red fruit profile is cherries, cranberries, plum and wild berries leading to lots of sweet and savoury spices and turning cocoa and dark chocolate on aeration. There are also prominent dry tones of purplish flowers such as lavender and violets. Classic taste/nose meets with the traditional treatment of Slovenia, old cask ageing, resulting in a tight and fresher acidity, despite the 14% ABV from modern making.

'Friggiale' being the major vineyard for this wine, according to a discussion by Monty Waldin and Luca Saladini, means 'cool' or 'windy', 'fresh, or 'ventilated', hence the style, though there is a specific mix of ripeness and freshness, probably from its Southern though West-oriented position. This wine is in great contrast to the other wines from the same makers using grapes from the Poggiotondo site to give modern, round and ripe fruit. Instead, the fruit is bolder from the Pietrofocaia site, which shows more prominent tannins.

The score is not bad- 94 JS.