The 2010 Brunello di Montalcino Bassolino di Sopra opens with a cooling array of sweet sage and white smoke, giving way to hints of blackberry and camphor. This sweeps across the palate with textures of pure silk, pliant and supple, displaying ripe red and black fruit notes over a core of saline minerals and spice. It finishes structured and long with a spicy balsamic flourish as a bump of residual acidity keeps the mouth watering for more. This is remarkably pretty and finessed yet still deep and complex. I expect amazing things with just a few more years of cellaring.