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At Vinfolio, we help our clients buy, sell, store, and manage their most treasured bottles of wine. Skip to content. Guigal M. How Long Will Brunello Age? Share on Facebook Share. Share on Twitter Tweet. Granted, you may need to do a little homework on vintages, especially these days when dry, torrid vintages are yielding wines that are more accessible than ever upon release. Case in point: many of the Barolos are already almost accessible, and you should be drinking these while you wait a few more years for the s.
And up until the s, cooler, wetter growing seasons and a general push toward quantity over quality meant large yields and unripe grapes produced teeth-coating, hair-raising tannins and crackling acidity. Top Barolos, Barbarescos, Brunellos and Chianti Classicos from the time of yore definitely needed decades to soften and become approachable, never mind enjoyable.
Thank You! We've received your email address, and soon you will start getting exclusive offers and news from Wine Enthusiast. Fast-forward 20 years, and Italy is a different wine world: clonal research has produced quality-driven plants that mature more evenly and earlier, and are more resistant to fungal diseases. Better farming practices means producers reduce yields and pick only when grapes have reached ideal ripening, while warmer, drier temperatures help ensure perfect grape maturation.
So the difference is small except that the Riserva needs to be stored for one more year. The wine is usually good to drink after about 10 years. Some more traditional wineries still produce Brunello according to older rules which required 4 years of aging on wood. These producers also use the more traditional large wooden barrels which provides less wood contact and thus adds a different taste to the wine than the smaller modern barrels in which more modern style wineries age Brunello for 2 years.
This difference as well as the many different micro-climates in the area of Montalcino make it difficult to describe a unified flavor style of Brunello. The best way to get to know this wine is by tasting bottles from different wineries in Montalcino. Brunello can age for a long time, at least 25 years or more when the wine came from a good winery and vintage.
Decantation: Before a bottle of Brunello can be drunk it is best to be decanted using a decanter.
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