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Altesino

Tuscany (Italy)

Distillates Reviewed: 2

Average Score: ✧✧✧✧

Brandy di Brunello

Grappa di Brunello Riserva

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Brandy di Brunello

Altesino (Italy)

Tuscany

(Distiller: Distilleria Nannoni)

Brunello di Montalcino
Brandy	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This brandy shows a pale amber yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean and refined aromas of chocolate, hazelnut, prune, dried violet, vanilla and honey, with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors with perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to dissolve rapidly, good correspondence to the nose, pleasing roundness, balanced. The finish is persistent with flavors of chocolate, prune and honey. This brandy is produced with Brunello di Montalcino distilled in discontinuous steam operated alembic still and aged in casks of different woods.

Alcohol: 42%	18 °C (64 °F)

October 2011

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Grappa di Brunello Riserva

Altesino (Italy)

Tuscany

(Distiller: Distilleria Nannoni)

Pomace of Sangiovese
Grappa	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This grappa shows a pale amber yellow color, limpid and crystalline. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas of prune, vanilla, black cherry jam, tobacco, hazelnut, dried violet, honey and cocoa, with almost imperceptible alcohol pungency. In the mouth has intense flavors with perceptible alcohol pungency which tends to dissolve rapidly, balanced sweetness, pleasing roundness, good correspondence to the nose. The finish is persistent with flavors of prune, hazelnut and honey. This grappa is distilled in a batch steam operated alembic still and ages for more than 12 months in cask.

Alcohol: 42%	18 °C (64 °F)

August 2011

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