Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 'Gemini', La Serena

92

2019-11-07

This offers attractive dark plums with earthy and spicy complexity. The palate has bright, focused red-cherry and licorice flavors, set in firm but smooth-edged tannins. Drink or hold.

95

2020-04-07

The 2013 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gemini shows a ripe yet earthy display of forest berries with spicy florals, notes of moist soil, crushed stone and hints of animal musk. On the palate, soft textures envelop the senses in a coating of sweet and sour red fruits and spice with a citrus twang, as tannins slowly mount, yet the Gemini maintains freshness beautifully through zesty acids and inner florals. The finish is long, turning more toward the youthfully tart side, with saturating spices and grippy tannins clenching the senses. It has many years to go before all of the elements come into balance, but once they do, pure beauty. I tasted the 2015 Gemini over the course of two days and it just kept getting better.

91

A Brunello whose limpid, pale crimson colour could mislead you to think this was a lightweight wine, but it has the Sangiovese grape’s classic underlying insistency, focused fruit and clear red cherry flavours. The finish is mouthwateringly savoury