The Mastrojanni 2015 Brunello di Montalcino has a succulent or meaty quality that adds to the overall intensity of the wine. You get rich fruit, baking spice and even a touch of rum cake. The wine is dark and velvety in appearance, and the mouthfeel is ro...
The secret to the quality here is the vineyards: sites around Chassagne-Montrachet and Meursault. The fruit is all hand harvested, meticulously sorted, and gently fermented and aged in 500 liter barrels with no new oak. It's wonderfully aromatic, with bol...
Lots of big, dark fruit and a lack of water in the grapes define the unique personality of the 2017 Le Volte dell'Ornellaia. This is a highly extracted and succulent expression that delivers abundant fruit sweetness. The key to this vintage was waiting fo...
Here I'm finding a zesty and wild bouquet of crushed red fruits in a cloud of cedar dust and sweet spices with hints of leather and herbs. Notes of black cherry slowly turn more to cranberry, with sweet herbs, minerals and juicy acidity. The finish is lon...
This is a fun Tuscan blend of equal parts Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. The Mastrojanni 2021 San Pio (with 19,000 bottles created) reveals a saturated color and medium-rich appearance with luscious aromas of black fruit and dark plum. There is a touc...
Showing cracked white pepper and wet slate, this wine definitely brings you to a clear sense of place. The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Loreto is precise and delineated, but as the wine opens, you get interludes of ripe fruit, blackcurrant and oak sp...
This wine is not labeled Riserva, but it could be for all practical purposes. The Mastrojanni 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Schiena d'Asino has a dry quality of fruit, more brittle, if you will, with fallen autumn leaves, wild game, underbrush, hard s...
You'll recognize this wine by its classy packaging that features a red wax seal on the front label. The Mastrojanni 2020 Brunello di Montalcino is a little shy initially. A few more years, even months, of bottle age should get it to shine. The bouquet is ...
The Mastrojanni 2019 Brunello di Montalcino has a pretty bouquet with dark fruit and something exotic that recalls camphor ash, wood fire ash, garrigue and dried herb. It is rich and evenly concentrated with fine chalk on the tannins and good phenolic rip...