2020 Brunello di Montalcino Filo di Seta
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A saturated red color, the 2020 Brunello Di Montalcino Filo Di Seta is supple and inviting, and has real structure and depth. With a more woodsy profile of mossy earth, it offers fleshy, full-bodied richness with a velvety texture and a long-lasting finish. It was a baby in this tasting and should start to show its best over the next few years. Drink 2027-2046. Located on the northern slopes of the Montalcino region, surrounded by forest, Castello di Romitorio has produced wines that were impressive across the range, expressive of purity, mineral intensity, finesse, and power without weight. The tannin management is remarkable across the range of the wines tasted for this report. They were tasted at the estate with founder Sandro Chia’s son, Filippo Chia. Also included in this report are his wines from Tenuta Ghiaccio Forte, their sister estate in Scansano.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
Eric Guido, Vinous
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Filippo Chia and his team kill it in this vintage. The Castello Romitorio 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Filo di Seta is a beautiful and balanced wine. This estate is making some of the best Brunellos from Montalcino today. In the not too distant past, its vineyards were once considered too cool for ideal fruit ripening, but with climate change, the vines are now in a prime position for balanced phenolics, sugars and acidity. This wine shows a wide and complete bouquet, spanning many aromas, all delivered with direct vertical intensity. This is one of the delightful oxymorons that occurs with fine wine. It shows soft, building intensity, but most importantly, the fruit quality is bright and fresh (with 7,760 bottles made). This is a keeper.
The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Filo di Seta is youthfully coy. Swirling the glass slowly unlocks layers of crushed stone, dried flowers, plums and smoky blackberries. It displays textures of pure silk, with polished red and black fruits elevated by a balsamic flourish that amasses toward the close. Dramatically long yet youthfully tense, it finishes structured with a saturation of fine tannins and hints of exotic spice. Bury the Filo di Seta in the cellar. It's a sleeping beauty.