95 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2012

Medium red.  Soil-inflected aromas of cherry, minerals, dried flowers and blood orange; an essence of sangiovese.  Silky-sweet, plush and seamless, with pungent red cherry and strawberry fruit showing an almost liqueur-like sweetness without any impression of heaviness.  Most impressive on the rising whiplash of a finish, which features sweet tannins, firm acidity and terrific lingering perfume.  Not at all a powerhouse but this edge-free, rather Burgundian Brunello nevertheless stains the palate.  I found this beauty hard to spit.

96 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate