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2018 Pertimali (Livio Sassetti) Brunello di Montalcino
5/19/2024 - jon.siracusa Likes this wine: 92 Points
Recommend opening this wine 3 days before you want to drink it. Simply open, and leave cork off for about 20 minutes, then replace cork. For whatever reason, this wine didn’t respond as well to decanting. The multiday bottle breathing process is what performed better.
When you return to this wine 3 days later, you have a very good Sangiovese waiting for you. Quite tannic and grippy, but inky and sweet as well. Multilayered and very enjoyable.
To the winemaker’s credit, a blind taster would have a hard time identifying this as a weaker vintage (assuming the 3 day opened bottle rest)… this tastes like a ‘19, but still not in the same league as the ‘16.
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2019 Castello di Bossi Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
3/19/2024 - jon.siracusa Likes this wine: 93 Points
2 hour decant. Any earlier and you’ll be premature- I tasted every 30 minutes.
This is a really beautiful Chianti.
Has that mild, balsamic-mint nose that quality Sangiovese acquires. Earthy, not floral.
Medium bodied with moderate tannins offset by some syrupy balsamic glazey flavor.
Wish I bought more than 2 bottles. Will drink my final bottle on a special occasion.
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2016 Château Léoville Barton
3/1/2024 - jon.siracusa Likes this wine: 95 Points
3 hour decant.
Nose is slate and mineral and pencil shavings with the ether of the alcohol making itself known as well.
This is phenomenal wine. Reminds me of the 2005 Clos du Marquis Saint Julien that we had in Paris in 2014 in our friends’ apartment on Ile Saint Louis. At 9 years old that wine was so delicious, it imprinted on me.
This one is now only ~7.5 years old, and it is definitely in the beginnings of its drinking window.
Plum jam… if I had to name one dominant flavor. But it is essentially a very sexy cabernet that is drawing me in every sip, testing my mediocre ability to describe in detail that which I simply want to declare as “delicious.”
Worthy of a special occasion, if you patiently decant.
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