2015 Canalicchio di Sopra Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  1/20/2024 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points

  shoulda read my words on the wine btl tag ("air / patience!! brooding in '22 bold for BdM")... nothing more need be said, luckily my last three bottles are buried in off-site boxes (rather than being in the wine cellar rack)... best leave this wine alone for 6-8 years at least, especially since it appears to have the stuff to make for good drinking down the road

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  4/1/2023 - ShangGuy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drank it 2 years after initial tasting in Italy. Dark brown hue, soft to medium fruity aroma. Powerful first Brunello burst, dark rich fruits - currants, cherries, followed by a lip smacking earthy finish - hints of chocolate. Long linger to let the earthy flavour sit. Great wine - drink up

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  7/20/2022 - Bob likes wine Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Only from clay soils, from their oldest vines planted in '87. 5*vintage. Only 36 months in oak, rest in bottle. Dark cherry and liquorice on the nose, with plenty of complexity. Quite heady, aromatic, leather and cedar. Delicious and complex wine.

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  3/4/2022 - Papies wrote: 92 Points

  Served blind.
  Very young and bright wine with an austerity to it that almost made us think it was a pauillac. Impossible to place in many ways, soft cherry fruit at times but really the fruit is quite brooding black. Good use of oak here which stays in the background. Not a very characteristic Brunello in our view but also very young. 92 for now

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  9/1/2021 - ShangGuy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Montalcino 2021 Brunello Trip; 8/26/2021-9/1/2021 (Montalcino, Sienna Province, Italy): Seventh vineyard visited, Eighth wine tasted on our 2021 Brunello tour in Montalcino - Canalicchio di Sopra, a wine I have not tasted in a long time. The Reserve was a real treat. Brown/Burgundy hue, modest aroma. Surprisingly soft first taste - dark fruits of cherries, blackberries, currants. Finish is medium quick and long linger - dry, oaky, earthy, hints of barnyard earth. Cheek smacking dryness tannins well balanced and smooth. Think it still needs a few years to develop, but this will be superb

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