This dark-colored Brunello offers a big concentration of ripe fruit, black licorice and tanned leather on the nose. Full-bodied, with chewy tannins and loads of layered, velvety tannins and toast, coffee, berry flavors. Long and superrich. A blockbuster style. Australia in Montalcino?—'99 Brunello blind retrospective (2009). (Web-2010)