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• Montesquieu Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 14, 2024 - An excellent bottle that fully rewards its cellaring. Plenty of tar, dry cigar, and a bit of tertiary barnyard. Big and meaty. Penultimate bottle from a case. Picked on Valentine's Day in honor of our twins born in December 2006. My wife was carrying them when we vacationed in Tuscany and Amalfi, October 2006. If you own, now's a great time to enjoy.

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• Somm David T Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 3, 2024 - Perfect pair with Christina’s Bolognese Sauce.
  
  Italian red are so astringent w/o this kind of age. At this age, it shows its bright fruits rather than all wood plank and barrel toast young. It takes this kind of age to shine. Roughly 18 years in bottle and it is near its peak.
  
  Bright, ripe, floral; blackberries, dark cherries, black raspberries, raspberries, touch of plum. Dry herbs-sage lead, bay leaf, moist, grey, volcanic clay, sandstone, sandalwood, light dry, tobacco notes, dry brush, dry top soil, powdery dry rocks, some cola, cocoa powder, dark spice, baking spices- clove, light nutmeg, touch of cinnamon, light vanillin, withering red roses, excellent acidity, perfect balance, tension, structure, length and a two-minute finish.

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• gboue Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 14, 2023 - Aged well. Needed airing

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• Montesquieu wrote: 91 points

  May 27, 2023 - Good, not great, bottle from a case chosen to celebrate Primoz Roglic's victory in today's Giro d'Italia final time trial. (I'm a big fan of Primoz. 2006 is my twins' birth year.) This one had dusty notes, gravel, dirt, and lots of fully dehydrated red and black fruit. Bottles are on their gentle decline.

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• Montesquieu Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 1, 2023 - Third time I've rated this wine and fifth time I've consumed. Tonight's bottle was terrific. Fully mature in its secondary fungal phase. This bottle certainly shows peak mushroom and intensity. My prior bottle wasn't nearly as good. If you have them, drink and enjoy the wine at its apex. For how many more years? I don't know, but would guess 2-4. My twin boys' birthyear is 2006, and I'll save some of the remaining 7 bottles for 2027+. But if I didn't have that destination in mind, I'd say drink now to enjoy this wine's peak.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer La Velona
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Codes 700358508080, 747505010911, 747505010928

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• Pending Delivery 27 (2%)
• In Cellars 646 (44%)
• Consumed 779 (54%)

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