Altesino Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
- Red
- Italy
- Brunello di Montalcino
- Sangiovese
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 20
- Community notes
- 215
- Merchant offers
- 76
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 90/ 1002017 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100215 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £75per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Drinking window
- 2017–2030peak2010 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 71 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Brunello.
- Body3.3 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · leather, earthy, truffle, smoke, mushroom
- Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, cedar, vanilla
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red currant, strawberry
- Spice · licorice, dried herbs, eucalyptus, mint, sage
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black cherry, black fruit, jam
- Dried fruit · raisin, prune, dried cranberry, dried fruit
Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2010One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2020unit not stated
- 2019£75 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201790criticunit not stated
- 201695critic£61 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 201596critic£67 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
- 2013£43 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
- 201294criticunit not stated
- 201095critic£65 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
- 200493drinkers
- 200390drinkers
- 200191drinkers
- 199990drinkers
- 199788critic
- 199592drinkers
- 199389drinkers
- 199092drinkers
- 198891drinkers
- 198592drinkers
- 198388drinkers
- 197592drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2010
- peak, window 2017–2030
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £43 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £75 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2016 | £61 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025 |
| 2015 | £67 | 95.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024 |
| 2013 | £43 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023 |
| 2010 | £65 | 94.9 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017 |
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