This neverending winter calls for red wines. Last night I enjoyed one of the bottles I bought during my last visit in Italy. I fell in love with this wine maker during a getaway in Tuscany some years ago. Lisini is a small reality based in Montalcino ,a classic Tuscan hilltop village 20 miles (30km) south of Siena, but what they produce is huge.
Brunello di Montalcino is one Italy’s most famous and prestigious wines. In Tuscany, its homeland, it shares the top spot with only the highly-prized Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and of course the ubiquitous Chianti
This Brunello has outstanding characterics due to a continuos care of the new plants grown with traditional methods, a careful selection and thinning of the bunches and a careful selection of grapes during the grape harvest.
Quoting the great wine critic Mr Galloni in his 95 points review, Lisini’s 2010 Brunello di Montalcino fleshes out in all directions with gorgeous, expansive richness. The flavors are dark, bold and incisive.
In fact this wine has a slightly ethereal bouquet fragrance with hints of extraordinary elegance, spices, violets and berries, dry taste, but at the same time soft and full harmonied balance
Wonderful to drink or to hold.