Authorities in Italy release seized Brunello wine

ROME: A top Tuscan wine producer says authorities have found no irregularities in thousands of bottles of Brunello di Montalcino that were seized earlier this year.

The Castello Banfi vintner said in a statement Monday that its bottles from the 2003 harvest have been released from impound and are back on sale.

The 600,000 bottles were seized in April because Italian magistrates alleged that there were too many of them for the wine to be authentic.

At the time, news reports said investigators had calculated that the land dedicated to Brunello could not have yielded as many bottles as it did without the wine being mixed with another variety of grape.

Siena investigators were not immediately available for comment Monday.