2019 Tenuta le Potazzine Brunello di Montalcino

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  5/23/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Warm spice driven Brunello. Smells pronounced, full, and really yummy right now. Lots of structure and backbone, very youthful, gonna be a real beauty to it.

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  5/8/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Oh! you Cellar Slackers, you are well named. Where are the reviews by other users for me to coast off? What is wrong with you utter swine? By God, when I come to power the lash will be applied to your backs and the span of your lives will be measured by your ability to come up with acceptable reviews, in good time, so that I may coast. The hate flows through me, like a warm summer day; it is so lovely, true and right.
  
  I have never heard of this winery but, being stupid and full of cash, I decided to try based on a strong review from that naughty Galloni fellow.
  
  Under the dread cork (the wine, not me, me, me), I have enjoyed this wine over 2 days, with an increasing sense of melancholy as the level in the bottle and glass drew down. Put simply, this is an elegant, adorable take on Brunello that eschews the usual brawny, young style. The wine is like the 3 sisters featured in some of the promos - rounded, enticingly soft but not flabby and very attractive though not in a plastic Taylor Swift way. They also exhibit a damned sight more talent that Swifty and there is no winery autotune.
  
  The texture is quite magical - voluptuous, but light on its feet and then very fine tannins provide support at the end. Wow! The fruit is very pretty - strawberry and red berry, lots of those Italian dried herbs and then some earth and forest floor. Galloni (curse him) was right - this is hard to keep your hands off. That is an unusual quality in young Brunello.
  
  There is a picture of two tit-mouse birds on the label and I will just say no more about this. Really.
  
  Interestingly, this wine has a very long ferment using only wild yeasts in the winery. I find it hard not to envisage legions of thrush devastated female winery staff being herded through the winery to impart their magic, whilst being recolonized, so the whole brutal cycle can continue. I think any wine that helps create these flights of fancy has to be regarded as sensational and I have rarely felt more comfortable in saying this is worth trying. Galloni lives another day, but what of you lot?

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