Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta), Brunello Montalcino other_regions There is outstanding richness to

There is outstanding richness to the big-bodied and overtly powerful flavors that possess a suave mouth feel before culminating in a firm and persistent if slightly leafy finish

The 2016 Clarté Haut-Brion Blanc has an open-knit bouquet of orange blossom

crushed flowers and deeply spiced notes are woven into an intricate fabric of indescribable class

though it perhaps does not possess the amplitude of the previous vintage

Tasted in London with a Bordeaux merchant

Gaja (Pieve Santa Restituta), Brunello Montalcino other_regions There is outstanding richness toConcentrated, dark fruit with top notes of tobacco leaf. Seems already a little developed. Noticeable oak on the palate but with lovely freshness too. Modernist hand and can already be approached. (WS)