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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by BryonD on 1/19/2024 & rated 88 points: Lovely aromas of roses and vanilla. Rich plums and cinnamon flavors with bold tannins. Lingering raspberry finish. A few years and I think it will be a beauty. (265 views) | | | Tasted by EEK on 12/30/2023 & rated 66 points: May have been a bit young. Very tight after decanting. It eventually opened up, but not a typical Brunello. Tasted more like a Chianti. (257 views) | | | Tasted by Putnam Weekley on 11/10/2023 & rated 90 points: Weigh value discrepancies between smell and drink in favor of the former. This is especially true of a young wine with penetrating, original aromas, and a palate bound up in reeds and acid. (Be sure to rule out remedial aromatic cosmetology.) The smell of this wine is insuppressible and relaxed, with anise, rose, and bergamot. A drink acts like translucent cables under tension. Ash roasted roots and twigs, seething with sap, keep illuminated clearance on the action. Gripping laces; wildflowers; crumbled earth; passively aromatized like minty, radiant, mountain amaro; exceedingly transparent of flavor; quite long. It’s premature! And exciting to drink. It might improve. 90-95 points.
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Update: 24 hours later it's hardly budged. It might even have lost a margin of pretty aroma. It's a little harder to access, and yet the winning material is still in there, bracing, and available by way of pressurized slurping. I can see this wine appealing to a certain faction—ascetic eurocentric elitists. 😂 Maybe avoid this wine if you are looking for fudge-textured ink with sweet tannins. (599 views) | | | Tasted by Hans Lukas on 7/11/2023 & rated 91 points: Ausgewogener Brunello, der wenig Ansprüche stellt und trotzdem raffiniert ist. Kellerkalt getrunken. (542 views) | | | Tasted by gfwetzel on 4/23/2023 & rated 89 points: Drank over an hour after 3 hours in a decanter. The color is a clear medium garnet. The nose has cherries, a touch of menthol, some underbrush and just a hint of cigarbox.
The palate has sage, cumin, some black fruit, oak. The acid is medium and with fine grained tannins that lend a slightly drying aspect to the medium+ finish. The wine is young yet and rough around the edges. It needs a few years to integrate and balance. ABV 14.5%. (696 views) | | | Tasted by BaronsPaw on 11/27/2022 & rated 95 points: Right in the sweet spot of quality and value. Nicely balanced, distinctive, full-bodied with moderate fruit, and a nice finish. (832 views) |
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JancisRobinson.com (1/12/2022)
(Sesta Brunello di Montalcino Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Eric Guido
Vinous, Jekyll and Hyde: 2017 Brunello di Montalcino and 2016 Riservas (Dec 2021) (12/1/2021)
(Tenuta di Sesta Brunello di Montalcino Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (10/20/2021)
(Tenuta di Sesta Brunello di Montalcino, Italy) Subscribe to see review text. |
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link to Importer: Grape ExpectationsSangioveseSANGIOVESE: (Pronounced "sahn-joh-vhe-se").
Sangiovese - Italy's claim to fame, the pride of Tuscany. Traditionally made, the wines are full of cherry fruit, earth, and cedar. It produces Chianti (Classico), Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello di Montalcino, Rosso di Montepulciano, Montefalco Rosso, and many others. Sangiovese is also the backbone in many of the acclaimed, modern-styled "Super-Tuscans", where it is blended with Bordeaux varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc) and typically aged in French oak barrels, resulting a wine primed for the international market in the style of a typical California cabernet: oaky, high-alcohol, and a ripe, jammy, fruit-forward profile.[16]
Semi-classic grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy. Used to produce the Chianti and other Tuscan red wines. Has many clonal versions, two of which seem to predominate. The Sangiovese Grosso clone Brunello variety is used for the dark red, traditionally powerful and slow-maturing "Brunello di Montalcino" wine. The other is the Sangiovese Piccolo, also known under the historical synonym name Sangioveto, used for standard Chianti Classico DOC wines. Old vine derived wine is often used in the better versions, needing several years ageing to reach peak. A third clone, Morellino, is used in a popular wine blend with the same name found in the southern part of the province. Recent efforts in California with clones of this variety are very promising, producing medium-bodied reds with rich cherry or plumlike flavors and aromas. Among the available clonal versions are R6 and R7, derived from the Montalcino region of Italy, having average productivity/ripening and producing small berries on medium size clusters. R10 and R24 are well-recommended. R23, listed as deriving from the Emilia-Romagna region, has good vigor with medium-small clusters with earlier ripening. R102 derives from the Montepulciano region and reported to have average vigor with moderate productivity that results in higher sugar levels and good acidity from medium-small berries on medium-small clusters. Has synonym name of Nielluccio where grown in Corsica.Italy Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorTuscany Tuscany (ItalianMade.com) | TuscanytMontalcino Montalcino websiteBrunello di Montalcino Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (Official DOCG website) |
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