BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO

2008 Collemattoni

Grapes Sangiovese
Colour Red
Origin Italy, Tuscany
ABV 14%

The charming Marcello Bucci had a shocking day on the 15th of August 2008, when an epic hailstorm devastated his vines - he lost half of his total crop of grapes destined for this Brunello - despite this set-back he has made an instantly delicious wine in his usual style. There is good spice and some perky dark fruit mixed in with lovely wood-spice - classic, rich Brunello in the Collemattoni style which will give immediate pleasure at a very sensible price. L&S (Jun 2013)


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Another southern wine (in this case, from Sant’Angelo in Colle) that seems to have benefited from the cooler growing season in 2008. This is a very appealing wine, made for early to medium-term drinking rather than the long haul, but showing classic Sangiovese notes of tea leaf and red fruits and an elegant, balanced finish. Drink: 2013-20 Rating: 93 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Mar 2013)

Collemattoni

This is a tiny seven hectare estate in San Angelo in Colle, on the southern side of the hill of Montalcino, nestling above the famous and rather larger Col d'Orcia vineyards (145 hectares). Marcello Bucci, who studied oenology under Signora Fuligni (Roberto Fuligni's aunt), is making wonderfully good wines which have rapidly increased both in quality and international recognition.

With his new winery now well and truly bedded in Marcello is thriving with the greater control and flexibility he now has - this is an estate going from strength to strength and the wines have a real true imprint of these beautiful rolling hills and Marcello's gentle manner. The wines from these vineyards are fuller and riper perhaps, than Fuligni or Padelletti. However, where there may be less lacy finesse, they more than compensate with indulgent joy, not to mention with their pricing. Collemattoni make some of the best value wines of the region.

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