Community Tasting Notes 5

• WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 points

  January 20, 2024 - shoulda read my words on the wine btl tag ("air / patience!! brooding in '22 bold for BdM")... nothing more need be said, luckily my last three bottles are buried in off-site boxes (rather than being in the wine cellar rack)... best leave this wine alone for 6-8 years at least, especially since it appears to have the stuff to make for good drinking down the road

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• ShangGuy Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 1, 2023 - Drank it 2 years after initial tasting in Italy. Dark brown hue, soft to medium fruity aroma. Powerful first Brunello burst, dark rich fruits - currants, cherries, followed by a lip smacking earthy finish - hints of chocolate. Long linger to let the earthy flavour sit. Great wine - drink up

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• Bob likes wine Likes this wine: 97 points

  July 20, 2022 - Only from clay soils, from their oldest vines planted in '87. 5*vintage. Only 36 months in oak, rest in bottle. Dark cherry and liquorice on the nose, with plenty of complexity. Quite heady, aromatic, leather and cedar. Delicious and complex wine.

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• Papies wrote: 92 points

  March 4, 2022 - Served blind.
  Very young and bright wine with an austerity to it that almost made us think it was a pauillac. Impossible to place in many ways, soft cherry fruit at times but really the fruit is quite brooding black. Good use of oak here which stays in the background. Not a very characteristic Brunello in our view but also very young. 92 for now

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• ShangGuy Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 1, 2021 - Montalcino 2021 Brunello Trip; 8/26/2021-9/1/2021 (Montalcino, Sienna Province, Italy): Seventh vineyard visited, Eighth wine tasted on our 2021 Brunello tour in Montalcino - Canalicchio di Sopra, a wine I have not tasted in a long time. The Reserve was a real treat. Brown/Burgundy hue, modest aroma. Surprisingly soft first taste - dark fruits of cherries, blackberries, currants. Finish is medium quick and long linger - dry, oaky, earthy, hints of barnyard earth. Cheek smacking dryness tannins well balanced and smooth. Think it still needs a few years to develop, but this will be superb

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Canalicchio di Sopra
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Code 8034073432200

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• In Cellars 277 (88%)
• Consumed 37 (12%)

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