2005 Brunello di Montalcino, Az. Agr. San Giuseppe, Tuscany

The 2005 Brunello San Giuseppe is a prodigious wine, if one still tightly wrapped up in its swaddling clothes. Sure, it probably won't ever display the breadth of fruit or density of 2004 but what it might lack in girth it will surely make up in finesse...remember 1998, that most underrated vintage, outscored by the easier if ultimately less successful 1997.

Like its maker, these wines are shy, preferring the shadows to the limelight, yet prepared to yield, to be coaxed out their shells if the company's sympathetic. It may be a little titillating now but in time...whoosh! Drinking till 2015 and beyond, with a leg of something tender.
(David Berry Green, BBR Buyer)

A glimmering, glowing nose. Earthy base notes and elegant succulent red fruit on the mid palate. Dried herbs and dried flowers, a touch of cardamom. Complete. Finely stitched. Poised. Incredibly hard to spit.
(Tamlyn Currin - jancisrobinson.com - 25 Mar 2010)

The 2005 Brunello di Montalcino has developed far beyond my initial expectations. Initially compact and folded in on itself, the wine literally blossoms into a jewel right before my eyes. Layers of floral red fruit spin effortlessly from this graceful, mid-weight Brunello, filling out quite nicely. This remains a slightly clenched wine, but one with tremendous promise.
(Antonio Galloni - eRobertParker.com - May 2011)