1990 Campogiovanni (San Felice) Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  5/1/2022 - paintinginacave Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Stood up for three days. Double decanted for two hours and drank four hours later. Upper top shoulder with a saturated cork. A pale ruby core fading to a very pale garnet outer edge. Complex and layered with mineral elements of tar and granite, floral scents of decayed rose petals, animal characteristics of bovine skin, a fruit profile of dried red berries and black cherry, ground espresso beans, and a touch of dried orange peel. Considerable depth and length on the palate - where it’s more about harmony than it is individual flavour profiles - and acidity that screams this wine is Italian. Superb.

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  5/1/2022 - Amberissey Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Double decanted two hours, then in bottle for four more. Burnt chocolate, burnt sweet pastry, dried rose petals and dried red cherry. There is a liqueur characteristic, some heat on the nose. Alcohol totally integrated on the palette though. The rose and cherry is there on the palette, alongside tar and pine needles on the finish. Also green coffee bean as the wine sat in the glass. Outstanding complexity. Bone bone dry and great freshness.

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  1/21/2022 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Drinking UNbelievably well which speaks to among other things the pristine cellaring conditions this wine has been in for the last 30 years. One of the better wines we have recently had - we acquired this one off bottle as part of a much larger cellar contents purchase and I surely wish we had more. Highly recommend and an excellent QPR wine. Still surprisingly youthful - this wine easily has another 10+ years to go. Opened an hour prior to consumption to stsrt airing but not formally decanted - if decanted a short splash decant should do. Dark red, peripheral bricking, long aftertaste, smooth, good mouth feel, still quite a bit of fruit left, complex and well integrated. An amazing example of what sangiovese and brunello can evolve into. Nose with some initial funk on it which blew off quickly followed by dark intense notes of dark stone fruit, leather, earth and coffee. Oak mostly gone with plum, black cherry and blueberry up front with mocha, mushrooms, tar and smoke on the mid- and late palate.

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  10/31/2020 - Ruby99 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A real surprise for me as I am not a big Italian wine fan, but this bottle which I purchased at release for $32 (a splurge at the time!) is excellent right now and drinking at its peak - though it probably has 10 more good years.
  The nose is big and fragrant with leather predominating over red fruits and a hint of exotic spices. On the palate there is still some fine tannin behind beautifully balanced leathery raspberry and black raspberry. The fruit is really juicy and forward. Overall though, the impression is one of balance. There is a nice long finish. It has been open 90 minutes and is just as good now as when we opened it. A pleasure to savor.
  Perhaps I did not wait long enough to open some of my other Brunellos...

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  12/27/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 91 Points

  The nose is somewhat simple; cassis and smoke with faint touches of the leathery, meaty accents that mark out Sangiovese grosso. Very peppery on the palate. This seems to be a bit past its best; I imagine this would have showed a little more pleasurably when it had more fruit 5-10 years ago.

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