1981 Lisini Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 93 points

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  3/6/2022 - Morten VB Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Sour cherries,red currant and floral notes. Slight hints of truffle an soups bois
  
  A wonderful display of perfectly aged brunello

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  12/22/2008 - baroloboy55 wrote: 92 Points

  I recall trying a bottle of the Lisini in a restaurant in my old neighborhood. It must have been in the summer of 88, our first nice dinner our after the birth of our first child. We enjoyed this wine and bought nearly a case on a closeout at I believe $20/btl. The wine I recall as warm, somewhat soft, cherry notes, nothing profound but a perfectly good, above average traditional producer that wasn't messing around with the sangioveto fruit; preferable to the bigger commercial houses but not up to the quality of my favorites of the day, Altesino and Caparzo (especially La Casa) which then led to the Pertimali and Ciacci's which beginning with the 88 Rossi became a staple of my early and mid years of accumulating.
  
  I've had these Lisini bottles over the years and seen a consistent evolution. The bottle this week, sadly my last, seemed at a better relative point than earlier bottles. Sniffing the bottle and then the first pour, the wine showed a mature nose predominated by mushroom and earth, supported and complemented by mature cedar/spice notes of an evolved sangioveto. While the Caparzo shared in thi flight showed a bit more flash, flesh and zest, this wine, though also in a very fine place, was more somber. On the palate, these wines showed perhaps more similarities. Once again, perhaps less acidic and a bit more resolved, but very warm and rich notes of cedar, spice, the last sour cherry notes. Very fine showing and nice contrast to the Caparzo. Both wines got better with air and were a terrific complement to a mushroom tart. Nearly comparable to the Caparzo. A very nice chord with the Caparzo playing the treble notes and the Lisini more of the bass notes.

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