Brunello reaches the point of no return

The last stop in the annual Tuscan en primeur (Anteprima 2011 – see also extensive tasting reviews of Chianti Classico and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano) tour was, as always, reserved for Brunello di Montalcino, without a shadow of a doubt one of Italy's greatest wines. There was not a single journalist not dying to have a look at the 2006 vintage which, after the three mandatory years in cask, finally saw the light of...