2006 Fuligni Brunello di Montalcino

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  5/20/2024 - bonedoc wrote: 97 Points

  no decant, drank over 2 hours. simply devine. beguiling aromatics, palate of red berries, hints of orange and iron, long delicate finish with excellent acidity. last bottle of a case. when i had my first bottle (and my palate was less mature) i was underwhelmed, being used to and preferring big, heavy hitter wines. this wine is delicate and pretty in style... which is what i'm trending towards these days.

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  4/8/2024 - rsbeck wrote: flawed

  Corked.

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  2/25/2024 - repoper wrote: 91 Points

  Slow oxed and then into a decanter. The cork looks brand new. Not even saturated a little. Dark crimson with no bricking at all. A fresh smell of cherries and chocolate, dry fruits, some candied fruits and baking spices - like in a fruit cake. Very alive and like my other bottles on the lean side. Last nights 2010 just shows more full fruit. Nice drink but just doesn’t have the volume and flesh of a riper vintage. I’m not sure if it’s going to improve but it will surely hold for another 10-15 years if stored properly. It’s not a blow back your hair type, but a working man’s Brunello. Better with my beef stew. I really like Fuligni and every other vintage from 1997 thru 2015 are just better made wines.

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  2/24/2024 - Rote Kappelle wrote: 94 Points

  This wine is as pleasurable as reading or listening to John Mearsheimer, a right-wing American nationalist but also a chap with a sense of humour, erudition, a sense of history and a developed capacity to look objectively at what is, not to invent what he would want to be. This is also how we should approach wine.
  
  I really needed a boost and this wine, plus a fine Clemens Busch provided it in spades, along with a brace of fine (but rather small) steaks.
  
  So, what do we have here? The colour is quite deep, there is some brick but not much more than there would have been almost at bottling. It is under a fairly non-descript cork, so you will get a lot of variation because of this ancient form of closure that is the equivalent to preferring the horse to the car, because there is more romance in the horse - especially cleaning up all that horse...
  
  The nose brings out my inner Flashman, singing a few hearty 'Nyaws' as I disrobe any number of well-built lasses who just want to be nice to me. The only thing better than fighting well in battle is avoiding fighting in battle at all.
  
  The characters I get, apart from the risk of fainting from the never ending stiffies caused each time I 'schniff der wine' are that initial hit of dried herbs (this is the Red Hot Momma from Louisianna- surely a prescient reference to Stormy), then waves of jube like dark fruits, with just a hint of amaro (Ted Nugent's neo porn background music - Stranglehold) and a mouthfeel that is really what you cellar wine for; tannins are nearly resolved, fine and a pleasure in their own right, sweet and bitter and nutty (rather like me), the intensity is at Gonzo Level 12 and length is the trajectory my life never really took - onwards and upwards forever.
  
  You can argue about whether this is 'Excellent' or 'Outstanding' but for mine it crosses the line because it is the exemplar of what Brunello is, or should be. The balance is exquisite, there is finesse, yet lustiness and it is hard not to keep going back for more. And that last one is, I think, the ultimate thing with wine. If you can't stop drinking it, then it has done something great, however it got there.
  
  I sometimes think that the Riservas of Brunello wines can be a case of too much of a good thing and that it is the relatively humble standard Brunello, or even the Rossi, that give you the best expression of the grape, the region and why Sangiovese should be considered a Noble Grape. The Riservas can be more about the winemaker than anything else. That isn't bad but ...

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  2/12/2024 - Doc Blinet Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Classic bouquet of Bruneilo with lingering tannins and finesse. It accompanied well with a dish of braised lamb shanks.

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