There are many ways to approach wine.\u00a0 You can buy at the top, or you can buy on the cheap.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with either approach depending on one\u2019s expectations.\u00a0 For us, it is always about finding the best juice for the best price.\u00a0 That sounds easy enough, but opportunities are not always there.\u00a0 Pricing is, of course, the principal issue.\u00a0 But getting the better wines greatly depends on vintages as well.\u00a0 As we have maintained for years, finding the little wines from serious producers is always a higher percentage play as a rule.\u00a0 But those elite producers obviously have greater upside potential on all of their wines when Nature cooperates.<\/p>\n
Again, as we may have mentioned, there are few vintages in Tuscany that compare to 2016.\u00a0 Chiantis?\u00a0\u00a0A number of \u2018best ever\u2019 performances from a variety of producers.\u00a0 Brunello? Folks will be anxiously awaiting the 2016s, but they are two years away.\u00a0 We\u2019ve have seen a number of thrilling \u2018little\u2019 wines from the \u2018big boys\u2019 in Bolgheri.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But poor little Rosso di Montacino, essentially declassified Brunello in many cases, is still pretty much under the radar.<\/p>\n
In short, Nature smiled on Sangiovese in 2016 and we have come across some crazy good Rossos that perform well above their station.\u00a0 Admittedly prices for Rossos can be all over the board. But given the vintage, one should take a good, hard look at the category.\u00a0 The Collosorbo Rosso di Montalcino<\/a> 2016<\/strong> is one of those exciting finds by virtue of both price and performance.<\/p>\n While every Brunello producer\u2019s Rosso story is a little different, this one doesn\u2019t have a lot of twists and turns.\u00a0 This wine comes from the same vineyards as the Brunello and is hand harvested into small baskets, pressed softly into temperature controlled stainless steel before a sojourn in Slavonian and French barrels for about a year.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s the way they do it all the time, but the results in 2016 reached new heights based on our experience with Collosorbo and we have had some pretty good runs with this bottling in the past (the 2010 comes to mind).<\/p>\n What\u2019s the secret? No secret. Consistent producer, excellent harvest, not rocket science.\u00a0 This is about fruit…pure, generous, rather ample Sangiovese fruit that wears its terroir for all to see yet can be appreciated simply for its outgoing, well-stuffed, rather gushing demeanor.\u00a0 It plays dark cherry, some earth and anise in the mix, shows surprising size for a \u2018simple\u2019 Rosso and the flashes the kind of polish to suggest higher aspirations in this wine.\u00a0 The Collosorbo Rosso 2016 played as nicely with a steak as with a plate of pasta because of its gregarious fruit core and bright flavors.\u00a0 It was engaging from the first sip.<\/p>\n It got some pretty serious ink for a \u2018little\u2019 wine as well.\u00a0 Monica Larner of Wine Advocate comments, \u201cThe 2016 Rosso di Montalcino opens to a bright ruby color with purple highlights. The wine is youthful and bright in personality with a full load of plump cherry and ripe blackberry. You also get hints of spice, crushed mineral and balsam herb to round off the bouquet. The mouth feel is rich, generous and nicely structured. This is an excellent value buy<\/strong>…90 points.\u201d<\/p>\n James Suckling kicked it up a notch, \u201cOffers more concentration on the nose with mostly notes of blackberry pie, plum cake and even some Christmas pudding. On the palate, the fruit is melded beautifully with chewy yet tight tannins and taut acidity. Great stuff for what it is<\/strong>. Drink now… 93 Points<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n This \u2018best ever\u2019 effort exceeds previous efforts for this series from a review perspective, but shares an important number with the 2010…the price.\u00a0 Thanks to a variety of factors that worked in concert here, $19.98 will buy you a pretty spectacular bottle of Rosso that doesn\u2019t play like your ordinary \u2018second wine\u2019.<\/p>\n An exceptional \u2018go-to\u2019 while it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many ways to approach wine.\u00a0 You can buy at the top, or you can buy on the cheap.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with either approach depending on one\u2019s expectations.\u00a0 For us, it is always about finding the best juice for the best price.\u00a0 That sounds easy enough, but opportunities are not always there.\u00a0 Pricing … Continue reading “COLLOSORBO ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[94,467,469,468,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}