Donatella Cinelli Colombini Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva - 2015 (750ml)

95 points Wine Spectator

This red combines fresh cherry and strawberry fruit with graphite, earth and leather notes for a positive impression. A swath of burly tannins lingers on the finish, needing time to meld with the ripe fruit and rich texture. Best from 2024 through 2043. 800 cases made, 150 cases imported.

94 points Robert Parker

The Donatella Cinelli Colombini 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva shows a dense and concentrated personality, owing much to the warm, sunny and delightful conditions of this epic growing season. This wine draws its fruit from a 10-hectare parcel with clay soils and wide-open skies with clouds and sunbeams, which take in most of the landscape to the north of Montalcino. This is a 9,600-bottle production. Black cherry, blackberry confit, spice and warm earth make up the bouquet. Plush and slightly sweet fruit flavors color the softly textured mouthfeel. This Riserva shows a bit of extra vintage ripeness, rendering a more accessible, medium-term drinking window.

94 points Vinous

The 2015 Colombini Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is an understated beauty, with a bouquet that mixes notes of wet stone and earthy minerals with wild strawberry and flowery perfumes. It’s wonderfully pure and lifted by saline-minerality, giving way to sweet red berry fruit, inner florals and herbal tones. Zesty acidity adds balance even as fine tannins slowly settle in. It’s hard to imagine the 2015 getting better than it already is today, yet a few years of cellaring should broaden its textures and reveal even further depths. Very nice. - By Eric Guido on October 2020