BRANCAIA - N°2 - 2017

BRANCAIA

N°2 2017

- 91 points -

Brancaia's 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon is a dark and thickly concentrated wine  with plenty of black fruit, spice, tar and campfire ash. This was a scorching  hot and dry year, and this wine reminds you of this fact thanks to its  concentration and thick density. There is some sweetness here, in the form  of blackberry syrup and crème de cassis, and the wine's structure is  apparent. Everything is enhanced and enlarged in this vintage. Although the  score is similar, this wine is very different in character to the 2016 vintage.
I've given this wine a shorter drinking window as well. Open it soon with  some lamb and stuffed black olives.

Monica Larner, September 2019


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