Brunello 2015 – a five-star vintage?

At the end of last year very favourable noise on the quality of the 2015 vintage was coming out of Italy. Ever the cynic, I couldn’t immediately grasp what it was about, because Italy had just experienced another record-breaking hot summer, with three months of incessant sunshine, temperatures near and often above 40 °C and not a drop of rain. I hasten to add that it is almost impossible to generalise about such large and diverse...