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Have you ever found, upon opening a bottle of Brunello, that you\u2019ve tasted it and thought \u2018I like this, but it\u2019s just a little too austere for me \u2013 where is the pure pleasure?\u2019<\/em>. If that\u2019s crossed your mind and stopped you from getting really excited about the wines, then the 2017 releases are for you.<\/p>\n It was undeniably hot and rather dry \u2013 it barely rained from June to August, but if you know your site and worked with your vines then the results have been very good and critically, where they may have lost some points for finesse, they\u2019ve taken them back for sheer pleasure.<\/p>\n This is a year where you expect to hear lines like \u2013 \u2018it was a wine maker\u2019s vintage<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018it benefitted some terroirs and hampered others\u2019<\/em> or even \u2018this was very heterogeneous<\/em>\u2019. It is our way (and what we think is an intelligent way) of saying that really quality conscious producers still made lovely wine and less quality conscious producers made something pretty dull.<\/p>\n To be more specific, the best producers did something along the lines of the below:<\/p>\n Interestingly, despite the very dry period, there was a drop in temperature in September which, in the words of Sara Rossi from Padelletti \u2018allowed us to arrive at harvest with good ripeness of grapes, polyphenols and seeds<\/em>\u2019. The last month was archetypal for the season, with temperature ranges exactly the same as 2016.<\/p>\n In 2017, much like the attitude you would take with Bordeaux or Burgundy, you\u2019ve got to rely on the producers your favour to interpret the vintage well and come out with their style. It is far from universally successful, but we\u2019re really quite smug about how the wineries we work with have managed to translate the weather and even more satisfied with the great scores they have achieved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nIn the vineyard<\/h2>\n
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