2019 Sesta di Sopra "Magistra" Brunello di Montalcino

Professional Reviews

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97 points, Ian d'Agata's Terroir Sense. Launched for the first time last year in what was a slightly curious choice given the sub-par year, the 2019 Magistra showcases everything you’d expect and more from a top-flight, high-end Brunello. Good full red-ruby. Complex, multilayered aromas and flavours of red cherry and truffle are complicated by strong, sexy notes of cinnamon and sweet spices. Then also rich and layered in the mouth, with harmonious acidity and smooth if youthful tannins nicely framing the sultry red fruit nuances on the long rising finish. This superb Brunello is made with grapes picked in Sesta di Sopra winery’s oldest vineyard (forty years old+); it is located in one of the two best areas of the whole Montalcino denomination (together with Montosoli, there is no better piece of land in all of Montalcino in which to grow Sangiovese than Sesta) and so no surprise that in a great vintage the wine really shines.