Fattoria La Lecciaia Brunello di Montalcino Manapetra 2017

The 2017 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Manapetra offers extra brawn and power spread over ripe cherry and baked fruit. The heat and drought of the 2017 vintage come through with clarity in this single-vineyard expression. The wine is also broader and thicker in terms of its textural fiber, with some astringency on the ripe tannins. It's not perfectly balanced now, but the wine could use a few years of bottle aging for sure.

This has a subdued nose suggesting aromas of mocha, toasted oak and dark spice. On the ripe palate, grainy, astringent tannins accompany prune, vanilla and toasted hazelnut.