San Polino, Brunello Montalcino Riserva Vintage:2010 The 2015 Loechel Shiraz is

The 2015 Loechel Shiraz is elegant and refined

and it has a balanced feel (but perhaps less austere) and a clean

The old vines are very much apparent as this velvety yet very serious effort displays excellent power and like many of these Gevrey grands crus

A more deeply pitched and brooding nose only grudgingly reveals its aromas of cassis plum liqueur and pungent earth where the latter is also found on the vibrant and well-detailed big-bodied and tautly muscular flavors that deliver excellent depth and persistence

San Polino, Brunello Montalcino Riserva Vintage:2010 The 2015 Loechel Shiraz isHere is a Brunello with so much refinement and class combining cherry, tea and tobacco character. Full and so very polished. The length and intensity are fabulous. Incredibly powerful tannins that remain refined. Give it three or four years. Better in 2018 but fabulous now.