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2016 Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja), Brunello di Montalcino, Rennina
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2016 Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja), Brunello di Montalcino, Rennina
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Why We're Buying
The Gaja family purchased the Pieve Santa Restituta estate in 1994. Sharecroppers had previously worked the land but found the nutrient-poor soil inhospitable to most crops. However, the rugged terrain proved the perfect site for Brunello, with the rocky clay-calcareous earth giving way to one of the estate’s most extroverted wines. The 2016 Gaja Pieve Santa Restituta Rennina is teeming with energy. The lively aromatics lead into a supernova of black cherries, blackberries, dark chocolate, walnuts, wildflowers, mint, anise, ginger, and tar. Sporting a body rounder than a beachball, Rennina parlays the expansive mouthfeel with plush tannins and an exceedingly long finish. Wine critic Michaela Morris distilled 2017 Rennina nicely, saying, “Quite a fully charged, boisterous Rennina, this will need some time to tame.” The Final Sip: Dark, intense, and beautiful in youth, the best is yet to come for 2016 Gaja Pieve Santa Restituta Rennina.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
Some much shaved black truffles to the blackberry, walnut and chocolate undertones. It’s full-bodied and layered with chewy yet soft tannins and a long, flavorful finish. Smoke, mahogany and wet-earth undertones. Needs three or four years to soften and come together. Best after 2024.
Vinous
The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Rennina is a dark and youthfully understated beauty. A gorgeous display of tobacco and savory herbs gives way to tart cherries, currants, brown spice and earth tones, gaining further richness the longer it spends in the glass. It’s seamless, elegant and silky in feel, with layers of ripe red fruit offset by dried citrus, as notes of black tea, licorice, hints of olive and saturating minerals settle in. There’s so much going on here; yet beneath its polished elegance, a layer of fine tannins penetrates deeply, making for a dry and structured finale.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Pieve Santa Restituta 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Rennina (with 15,000 bottles produced) offers intensity and beautifully concentrated fruit. The bouquet reveals layers of wild cherry, rose, blue flower and candied orange peel. However, if you are expecting a more subdued Rennina, that’s not what you get in this classic 2016 vintage. The wine is buzzing with energy and vitality, with a lifted and an especially brilliant set of aromas. You might also detect a hint of fresh peppercorn or coriander seed that gives the wine a veil of the exotic.