Grab your corkscrew: Italy's best Brunello di Montalcino may be here

Dust off the stemware, put in your cheese order and start drawing up a guest list. Next year -- if you can wait that long -- may be the best time ever to sample Italy’s bold, earthy Brunello di Montalcino wine.

Brunello’s 2015 vintage will be uncorked starting January, and winemakers and oenologists say it will be one of the finest on record. Bottles won’t come cheap, though, according to experts convening at Vinitaly, the world’s largest wine and spirits exhibition, starting next week in Verona.

“Everyone’s already talking about it,” said wine entrepreneur Roberto Giannelli,