2004 Fattoria dei Barbi Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (79) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  7/7/2023 - nicholasagonzales Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Beautiful tawny color. The balance is still quite incredible. The nose had cherry and raspberry aromas. Wish I had more bottles left.

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  8/28/2022 - Yagil wrote: flawed

  oxidized

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  10/19/2021 - forceberry wrote: 82 Points

  Aged for 2 years in oak barriques and demi-muids, followed by a shorter period in large botti casks. Aged for a minimum of 4 months in bottles before release. 14% alcohol. Tasted in Barbi Brunello 2010-1968 vertical.
  
  Dark, moderately opaque and surprisingly evolved figgy hue with a mature, slightly syrupy brown hue. Surprisingly evolved and even somewhat tired nose with quite tertiary aromas of pungent soy sauce and rancio, some figgy tones, a little bit of sweet, wizened red cherry, light notes of tobacco, a hint of fresh red plums and a touch of raisin. With air the raisiny notes seem to only grow in intensity. The wine is dry, somewhat tired and slightly tough on the palate with a medium body and quite tertiary flavors of loamy earth and autumnal damp leaves, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of pungent soy sauce, light beef jerky tones, a mushroomy hint reminding me of older Palo Cortado Sherries and a touch of saline rancio. The wine is moderately high in acidity, but the structure relies more on the assertive and noticeably grippy tannins. The finish is dry, quite long and rather tannic with pretty tertiary flavors of beef jerky, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of salty soy sauce, light bitter nuances of sour cherries, an autumnal hint of damp leaves and a touch of loamy earth.
  
  This is not oxidized or completely shot, but it isn't far from that either. In our Barbi vertical this wine came across as one of the most mature wines we tasted - and we tasted vintages all the way back to the 1960's! Based on the small sample of tasting notes in CT, either there is a lot of bottle variation in Barbi BdM 2004, or then this vintage has already peaked some time ago and is now slowly gliding downill. I really don't see any upside to aging this wine any further and instead I'd recommend to empty any remaining bottles quite fast. A disappointment.

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  9/5/2019 - Phenol73 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  (At Barbi). Ruby with tawny edges. Beautiful bouquet of aged Brunello, showing abundant clove, red and black cherries, old leather, sweet spice. Wonderful elegance. Initially a touch thin on the palate but fills out after an hour of airtime, then perfect balance with tannins completely integrated, bright acidity and good fruit expression. Long and lingering finish. Fantastic.

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  11/10/2017 - John Nezlek wrote: 89 Points

  Note: I use a rating scale on which 85 represents a very good wine.
  
  Just shy of the magical 90. Not that earthy for me. Dark cherry and well-balanced. Did not seem to change that much over 2 hours. Did not decant -- not certain if this would have changed things.

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