By Tenute Silvio Nardi
Vigneto Manachiara Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

Winemaker's Note
Brunello Manachiara is the wine of sunrise, the wine from the east. Full body, with chewy tannins and fresh fruit and acidity. Lively style of wine.

Wine Details
Type: Brunello di Montalcino DOCG
Production Area: Manachiara Vineyard, located in Montalcino
Vineyard: A southeast exposure at approximately 300 m a.s.l.
Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
Soil: Sands rich in quartz and Pliocene clays
Training System: Spurred cordon with 4,500 plants/ha

Winemaking and Aging
Fermentation and maceration for at least 22 days at a controlled temperature of 28-30 degrees C. Maturation for 18 months in French oak barriques (Allier), followed by 12 months in large Slavonian oak barrels. Subsequent aging in bottles for two years.

Sensory Characteristics
Intense, deep, ruby-red color with slight garnet highlights. Clean, intense, and complex aromas with hints of ripe fruit, accompanied by floral notes, enhanced with a delicate spicy component. On the palate, it shows a mellow first impact, continuing with a steady evolution, supported by the right degree of acidity. Great structure, supple, sweet, and enveloping tannins, and very good length. An excellent wine to lay down.
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Silvio Nardi Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara 2018
Score/Rating: 95
Review Date: 11/21/2022
Reviewed By: James Suckling
Tasting Notes: Polished and perfumed nose of hazelnuts, chocolate strawberries, sage, cherries and Spanish cedar. Firm and structured, with a full body enveloping just-ripe fruit and chocolate. All balanced by bright acidity. Refined. This would score even higher with a longer finish, but fantastic nonetheless. Drink after 2025.

Wine: Tenute Silvio Nardi 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara
Score/Rating: 94
Suggested Drinking Window: 2026 - 2033
Review Date: 10/2022
Reviewed By: Eric Guido
Tasting Notes: Holiday spice, lavender, crushed plums and worn leather can all be found as the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara comes to life in the glass. This is pure elegance on the palate, silky-smooth and soothing with ripe red and hints of blue fruit, as fine-grained tannins slowly creep in toward the close. It leaves a youthfully tart concentration while finishing structured and classically dry, as pretty inner florals and hints of licorice slowly fade. The single-vineyard Manachiara shows a bit of its wood, having been refined for 18 months in French barrique, followed by another 12 months in Slavonian oak barrels, yet the final result is wonderfully balanced. 

Wine: Tenute Silvio Nardi 2018 Vigneto Manachiara Sangiovese (Brunello di Montalcino)
Score/Rating: 93
Review Date: 12/01/2023
Reviewed By: Danielle Callegari
Tasting Notes: The nose mixes sweetness with umami, as vanilla and dark berries play with soil and mushrooms. On the palate, the berries and soil continue their game, while a stony herbaceousness watches from the shadows before a comforting, warm finish of bitter, spicy chocolate.

Wine: 2018 Tenute Silvio Nardi Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara
Score/Rating: 92
Suggested Drinking Window: 2024 - 2036
Review Date: 03/09/2023
Reviewed By: Monica Larner
Tasting Notes: Packaged with a blue wax capsule and a chunky glass bottle, the Tenute Silvio Nardi 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara opens to an inky dark appearance. The very first thing I noticed is the high alcohol content of the wine, measured here at 15.5%, which proves a distraction. The fruit is rich and concentrated, and there is a lot of oak spice and toast at the back. The tannins are dry. 

Wine: Tenute Silvio Nardi, Vigneto Manachiara, Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany 2018
Score/Rating: 92
Suggested Drinking Window: 2024 - 2031
Review Date: 11/09/2022
Reviewed By: Michaela Morris
Tasting Notes: [...] Made exclusively from southeast-facing plots on the eastern flank of Montalcino, it sports an attractive nose of vanilla, plum and cherry, with new leather accents flirting in the background. Seductively fashioned, generous prune fruit is seamlessly enveloped in layers of supple tannins. Juicy through the core, it finishes with sweet spice.

Wine: Tenute Silvio Nardi, Vigneto Manachiara, Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy, 2018
Score/Rating: 90
Tasting Notes: Blackberry, muted red fruit with a savoury element. Oak driven palate, chewy tannins with an appealing, moreish, style.

Wine: Tenute Silvio Nardi Brunello di Montalcino Manachiara 2018
Score/Rating: 89
Review Date: 11/2022
Reviewed By: Kerin O’Keefe
Tasting Notes: This brawny red has aromas suggesting coconut, camphor and sour cherry. The burly, one-dimensional palate exhibits oak driven spice, licorice and prune steeped in spirits. The heat of scorching alcohol throws it off balanced while close-grained tannins leave an astringent close.

Wine: Silvio Nardi, Vigneto Manachiara 2018 Brunello di Montalcino
Score/Rating: 16.5/20
Suggested Drinking Window: 2024 - 2032
Review Date: 12/12/2022
Reviewed By: Walter Speller
Tasting Notes: Impenetrable, dark, maturing ruby with narrow, bricky rim. Deep, balsamic nose with hints of dried fruit, but not without complexity. Intense and ripe and with dried-fruit notes on the palate but, notwithstanding this, it is not ready yet. (WS)