Caprili "AdAlberto" Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2019

Jeb Dunnuck : 96 Points

(1/22/2025) The 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva AdAlberto pours an orange/red color and is ripe with notes of baked strawberries, toasted spices, candied licorice, and sappy herbs. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the palate, although it also has a snappy and angular feel, with bright, salty energy and a citrus-noted finish. In my second tasting, I found it much more complete, quite enjoyable, and very harmoniously balanced and salty, with good length. It retains good freshness and clarity and is very nicely done. Drink it over the coming 15 years. Maturity 2025 - 2040.

Wine Spectator : 95 Points

(6/30/2025) This is sleek and succulent, featuring cherry, strawberry, blood orange, rose and mineral aromas and flavors. Flinty, with fine intensity as this cruises to the long aftertaste, which echoes the fruit and mineral notes and refined tannins. Best from 2028 through 2045. 450 cases made, 150 cases imported.

Vinous - Eric Guido : 95 Points

(11/2023) The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Adalberto opens with a rich blend of crushed plum and cherry complicated by hints of smoke, ashen stone, leather and citrusy spice. It's seamlessly smooth and silky in feel, with radiant red and black fruits that ride a stream of brisk acidity as saline minerals saturate toward the close. A sweet and sour sensation lingers through the finish as a tinge of pomegranate mixes with blood orange over a bed of grippy tannins. The 2019 is an unbridled beast just waiting to be tamed. Drinking Window: 2028 - 2040.

Decanter : 95 Points

(11/12/2024) Giacomo Bartolommei typically avoids producing a Riserva in the hottest years, meaning we will have three vintages in succession of his old-vine parcel selection to enjoy. The second of the trio, 2019 dials up the intensity and vivacity. Pronounced aromas of tarragon, allspice and star anise persist enticingly. Ripe red berries pop between layers of compact chalky tannins. This boasts its signature saltiness which seems to amplify the sweet mandarin finish. Though there are no rough edges, the latest release of AdAlberto should be tucked away to allow all the facets of its personality to develop. Drinking Window: 2027 - 2037.