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• Score: 95 Vintage 2020 Kerin O Keefe The Camigliano 2020 Brunello Gualto Riserva is a beautiful wine with enticing aromas of violet, cocoa, baked plum and a whiff of pine resin. Full-bodied and delicious, the already accessible, enveloping palate doles out succulent layers of ripe Morello cherry, raspberry compote, bitter orange and a hint of licorice. Velvety tannins offer seamless support. Drink through 2035. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2020 James Suckling Cloves, orange rind, red berries and a hint of rosemary on the nose. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, approachable and fluid, with tender red fruit and supple tannins. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2020 Wine Advocate The Camigliano 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto is a certified organic wine showing dark fruit flavors of blackberry and dark cherry layered with spice. Despite its Riserva designation, the wine offers an accessible personality that is medium-short in length with well-managed tannins drawn from extended aging. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2020 Vinous Media The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto wafts up with a pretty bouquet of wildflowers, spiced strawberries and nuances of worn leather. It balances a pleasant inner sweetness and vividly ripe wild berry fruit with a subtle mineral note. Lightly tannic, the 2020 finishes with admirable length and a sour berry tinge. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 95 Vintage 2019 Wine Enthusiast Aromas of hibiscus, cranberry, blood orange, tart cherry and pomegranate make for a tart nose, while the palate presents flavors of pomegranate, fig, chocolate and lots of citrus, all floating in a current which is warm, but also saline and buoyant with acid. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 95 Vintage 2019 Wine Spectator Harmonious and supple in texture, setting the stage for well-defined aromas and flavors of cherry, raspberry, currant, eucalyptus and tomato leaf. Firms up, with flint and mineral elements emerging as this winds down on the lengthy finish. Both dry and juicy on the finish. Best from 2027 through 2043. 200 cases made, 50 cases imported. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 95 Vintage 2019 James Suckling I really like the fresh cherry and apricot fruit with undertones of cedar and sandalwood. Extremely floral. Medium-bodied, racy and refined. Drink or hold. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2019 Jeb Dunnuck The 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva Gualto is a bright ruby color and is also a more floral inflected wine on the nose, with notes of candied cherries, Mediterranean herbs, menthol, and anise. Medium-bodied, it has better balance, with ripe tannins, more modest though even acidity, and a clean finish, and it offers good ripeness and freshness. I like this one a lot. It feels both approachable and age-worthy. Drink 2025-2040. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 95 Vintage 2018 Wine Enthusiast Herbaceous, earthy and savory on the nose, with wild fennel, mint and eucalyptus, then ripe cherries with snap in their skin and a squeeze of citrus bounce onto a palate that’s delightfully lithe and energetic even as it carries the maturity of age. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2018 Wine Spectator Strawberry, cherry and rose aromas and flavors mark this graceful red, whose solid structure is well-integrated. Subtle yet persistent, with red fruit flavors that show flashes of mineral and underbrush on the sneakily long finish. Drink now through 2033. 108 cases made, 75 cases imported. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 89 Vintage 2018 Vinous Media Musky dried cherries, rose petals and spice waft up from the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto. It’s soft textured, nearly fleshy in feel, with hints of orange and salty minerals giving way to tart wild berry fruits. This finishes tannic and full of tension, leaving a sour sensation and savory herbs to linger. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2016 Wine Spectator Displaying succulent cherry, raspberry, leather and spice flavors, this red is sleek and well-structured. Features fine balance and a finish that echoes the fruit while picking up a mineral component. Fresh and long. Best from 2025 through 2040. 333 cases made, 75 cases imported. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2016 Wine Advocate The Camigliano 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto shows increased precision and sharper lines compared to the 2017 wines reviewed here. This wine also reveals a more vibrant and intact fruit character with immediate aromas of cherry, wild plum and rose. In all, this production of 3,800 bottles shows a careful, delicate approach that is in line with this classic, slightly cooler vintage. This wine probably offers you the best value among this set of new releases.Camigliano has completed its conversion over to organic farming, and the wines from the 2017 vintage should already fall under organic protocols (although I didn't yet notice a seal of certification on the sample bottles I received). Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2016 James Suckling A rather soft and juicy Brunello with cherry, chocolate, walnut and bark character. It’s savory and fresh with lots going on. Very structured and polished. Goes on for minutes. Give it two to three years to come together. Try after 2023. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 92 Vintage 2016 Vinous Media The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto wafts up with an intense display of medicinal cherries, wild herbs and smoky crushed stone. This is pure and cool-toned, yet it offers the silkiest of textures and luxuriously ripe red fruits that balance the expression well. The Riserva Gualto tapers off lightly structured with balsam herbs and a subtle tug of grippy tannins. Don’t come here expecting a big strapping Riserva; the 2016 is all about charm. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 97 Vintage 2015 Wine Spectator Sleek and linear in profile, this red offers intense strawberry, raspberry, rose and wild herb flavors, with flourishes of mineral and tobacco. Solidly built, this leaves a long, resonant aftertaste of fruit, mineral and spice notes. Distinctive for its bright red fruit flavors. Best from 2024 through 2045. 350 cases made, 100 cases imported. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 94 Vintage 2015 Wine Advocate Offering ripeness and texture, the Camigliano 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto is a fun and accessible wine. The bouquet is very expressive, even at this young stage. I got a charge out of those shifting aromas of dark fruit, ripe cherry, rosemary essence and a touch of eucalyptus oil that lift from the bouquet. Those balsam herb aromas are well defined, and they always appear with the prettiest intensity in the warmer vintages like 2015. Riserva Gualto shows good structure and enough acidity to keep those fruit flavors fresh and bright. Only 4,000 bottles were made. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2015 James Suckling A succulent, juicy red with plum, berry and some meat and spice undertones. Medium body, medium tannins and a lightly bitter finish. Drink now. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2015 Vinous Media The 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto from Camigliano shows a mix of wild strawberry, sage, leather and moist earth, with a hint of sweet spice that comes forward over time. It’s silky and savory in the mouth, balancing red berries with tactile salty mineral tones and slow-mounting tannins which come forward toward the close. While balanced, clean and with a classically structured finale, I simply don’t find the depth here to warrant extended cellaring. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2013 Wine Spectator Offers a clear expression of cherry flavors, with hints of plum and strawberry, augmented by leather, tobacco and almond hints. A dense matrix of acidity and tannins lifts all the elements, while the aftertaste lingers. Excellent harmony. Best from 2022 through 2040. 450 cases made, 150 cases imported. –BS Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2013 Vinous Media Bright red-ruby. Perfumed aromas and flavors of red cherry, violet, underbrush, licorice and sweet spices. Clean, round and fleshy in the mouth, with sweet red cherry nuances lingering nicely on the long, refined finish. This is immensely better than Camigliano’s disappointing 2014 Brunello and, though brimming with early appeal, it’s worth laying away in your cellar and enjoyed over the next fifteen years or so. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 93 Vintage 2013 Wine Advocate The 2013 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Gualto (with 4,000 bottles made) is a firmly textured wine that needs extra bottle time to relax and unwind. This youthful expression is still somewhat firm and stubborn with linear tones of black fruit, spice, smoke and camphor ash. This wine ages in 20-hectoliter botte for 36 months and evidently needs more time to soften and evolve. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 91 Vintage 2013 James Suckling This has an array of savory spices with cedar, herbs and dried-berry aromas, leading to a palate that has a bright, fresh array of blue fruit. Neat and approachable Brunello. Drink or hold. Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 90 Vintage 2013 Wine Enthusiast Aromas of French oak, black-skinned fruit, underbrush and leather aromas come together on this. On the linear structured palate, tight-knit fine-grained tannins and fresh acidity frame mature Marasca cherry, prune, clove and a hint of coffee bean before the firm finish. KERIN O’KEEFE Shelf Talker Full Page Review
• Score: 91 Vintage 2012 Wine and Spirits This wine opens with ripe cherry flavors and notes of roasted mushroom, licorice and tobacco. Sturdy tannins frame the flavors as the wine develops complex spice and herb notes that last. Shelf Talker Full Page Review