2012 Il Marroneto Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  3/5/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:

  Tuesday Night Blind Tasting (Bin 75): Tasted blind. Lovely nose, red sour cherry fruit, feminine style, sweet finish, but with tannic grip. I initially called it Tuscan Sangiovese, but the group consensus was Nebbiolo and that group think swayed me.

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  8/13/2023 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Really earthy cherry flavours. Good freshness, 14% alcohol, firm but softening tannins, that support rather than overpower. There is of course tertiary leather here but at this juncture it is not overpowering the fruit. Medium plus weight. Long and complex. Drinking perfectly now, will become more tertiary from here but will last another decade.

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  6/8/2023 - MC wrote:

  PNP from a restaurant list in Montalcino, While a very slight whiff of roasted fruit on the nose this is very good and drinking just fine right now if you are okay with the tannins still showing a bit on the finish. We had a '17 as well on this trip and the '12 is so much more a 'serious' wine with plenty of focus, structure, and life ahead of it while the '17 is so much about the ripe fruit and pleasure to drink right now. Both nice but I like the future of the '12. A-

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  5/16/2023 - Montesquieu wrote: 94 Points

  Very good and fully mature bottle, perhaps because the Milan restaurant kept it and other bottles stored at room temp. Full of mushrooms, balsamic, overripe plum, and some leather and tobacco. Not sure how bottles better kept might fair. This nine seemed accelerated in the against process but not spiked by it.

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  11/14/2022 - LEEJV123 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Full, tannic, long, brooding. Absolutely not ready to drink, hold for another 5 to 15 years.

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