Community Tasting Note

MuddyBoots wrote:

Thursday, December 21, 2023 - Very garnet red now, projecting what indeed is a wine with fully developed soft red fruits housed in a structure that is now fully resolved. The fruit is very pretty - silky, caressing and succulent and without any hint of darkness - it's all small red berries. Some gentle warm brown spices - cinnamon. I believe this was aged in 36 HL Slavonian Oak - had I not thought this I would have suspected some new oak here. Clean. I got none of the brett that others experienced and this required no decanting. May lack just a little acid but is otherwise in perfect balance. The tannins are quite beautiful - evident on close inspection but very fine grained and fully ripe. Good length. Goes down easily. 14%. Commendable if not exciting Brunello, now fully mature. A single bottle bought on release as part of a 2001 set designed for a 2001 Brunello tasting - which did occur last year - but for which this bottle somehow escaped inclusion. Readers should know I really find Brunello exciting.

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