Montalcino tour; 7/20/2022-8/3/2022 (Montalcino, Italy): Birthday celebration in Montalcino called for the best and our benefactor of the evening over-delivered. A magnum of Montalcino’s finest from the early 90’s, impossible to find these days… Cork broke upon opening but wine intact. Significant sediment. Slow ox added to the adventure….
Delicate and totally refined, an elegant wine for an elegant party. Exquisite really. I remember it kept changing throughout the night, never staying the same but never diminishing. Fruit still there from start to long strong finish. Cherry, chocolate, local herbs, smoke. Reminiscent perhaps of a top burgundy. Wine of the trip. Lucky us!
This is an extremely fine bottle of Brunello, bursting from the glass with a complex bouquet of roasted black cherries, plums, raw cocoa, woodsmoke and Tuscan herbs. On the palate the wine is powerful and complete, with a rock-solid core of fruit and fine tannin and a long, intense finish. Terrific stuff, drinking well now but with years ahead of it.
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Wow. Second time this year I taste this wine collected in february directly in the celler of Cerbaiona. Collected several old vintages at the chapter room together with Nora Molinari. Diego and Nora are my stars of Montalcino. What a wine. Gives me the same feeling, that I had drinking Soldera 1990 Riserva. Incredible fresh. Perfect fruit, tannins fully controlled. This is a masterpiece from Il Commandante.
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Vino molto delicato ed elegante. Naso fresco, rosmarino ed alloro, fruttino rosso dolce da sangiovese. Elegante e delicato anche in bocca, forse leggermente diluito ma si beve con piacevolezza.
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7/29/2022 - El_Dougo Likes this wine: 95 Points
Montalcino tour; 7/20/2022-8/3/2022 (Montalcino, Italy): Birthday celebration in Montalcino called for the best and our benefactor of the evening over-delivered. A magnum of Montalcino’s finest from the early 90’s, impossible to find these days…
Cork broke upon opening but wine intact. Significant sediment. Slow ox added to the adventure….
Delicate and totally refined, an elegant wine for an elegant party. Exquisite really. I remember it kept changing throughout the night, never staying the same but never diminishing. Fruit still there from start to long strong finish. Cherry, chocolate, local herbs, smoke. Reminiscent perhaps of a top burgundy.
Wine of the trip. Lucky us!
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8/2/2016 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 96 Points
This is an extremely fine bottle of Brunello, bursting from the glass with a complex bouquet of roasted black cherries, plums, raw cocoa, woodsmoke and Tuscan herbs. On the palate the wine is powerful and complete, with a rock-solid core of fruit and fine tannin and a long, intense finish. Terrific stuff, drinking well now but with years ahead of it.
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9/20/2015 - D. Fulton wrote: 90 Points
Rather monolithic. Not a lot of fruit left. Perhaps past prime?
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8/4/2015 - Brandtholdt Likes this wine: 99 Points
Wow. Second time this year I taste this wine collected in february directly in the celler of Cerbaiona. Collected several old vintages at the chapter room together with Nora Molinari. Diego and Nora are my stars of Montalcino. What a wine. Gives me the same feeling, that I had drinking Soldera 1990 Riserva. Incredible fresh. Perfect fruit, tannins fully controlled. This is a masterpiece from Il Commandante.
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3/23/2013 - Venexian wrote: 91 Points
Vino molto delicato ed elegante. Naso fresco, rosmarino ed alloro, fruttino rosso dolce da sangiovese. Elegante e delicato anche in bocca, forse leggermente diluito ma si beve con piacevolezza.
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