Mongeard Mugneret, Richebourg Vintage:2017 This is my favorite bottle

This is my favorite bottle among these new Brunello releases from Fabio Tassi

This has gone from strength to strength and only seems to get better with each passing year

yellow stone fruit

The wine spends three years in large barrels and concrete

before malolactic fermentation in 100% new French barrique

Mongeard Mugneret, Richebourg Vintage:2017 This is my favorite bottleI have had wildly disparate experiences with this wine that have ranged from 89 to 95 points. The most recent example was easily the best of them and given that it was a bottle opened by the domaine it's not really all that surprising. The highly complex nose displays a hint of sous bois along with plenty of secondary fruit that is liberally sprinkled with spice, earth, game notes, clove and anise nuances. There is good richness and intensity to the