2017 Tenuta di Sesta Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (6) Median Score: 90 points

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  1/19/2024 - BryonD wrote: 88 Points

  Lovely aromas of roses and vanilla. Rich plums and cinnamon flavors with bold tannins. Lingering raspberry finish. A few years and I think it will be a beauty.

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  12/30/2023 - EEK Likes this wine: 66 Points

  May have been a bit young. Very tight after decanting. It eventually opened up, but not a typical Brunello. Tasted more like a Chianti.

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  11/10/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Weigh value discrepancies between smell and drink in favor of the former. This is especially true of a young wine with penetrating, original aromas, and a palate bound up in reeds and acid. (Be sure to rule out remedial aromatic cosmetology.) The smell of this wine is insuppressible and relaxed, with anise, rose, and bergamot. A drink acts like translucent cables under tension. Ash roasted roots and twigs, seething with sap, keep illuminated clearance on the action. Gripping laces; wildflowers; crumbled earth; passively aromatized like minty, radiant, mountain amaro; exceedingly transparent of flavor; quite long. It’s premature! And exciting to drink. It might improve. 90-95 points.
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  Update: 24 hours later it's hardly budged. It might even have lost a margin of pretty aroma. It's a little harder to access, and yet the winning material is still in there, bracing, and available by way of pressurized slurping. I can see this wine appealing to a certain faction—ascetic eurocentric elitists. 😂 Maybe avoid this wine if you are looking for fudge-textured ink with sweet tannins.

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  7/11/2023 - Hans Lukas Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Ausgewogener Brunello, der wenig Ansprüche stellt und trotzdem raffiniert ist. Kellerkalt getrunken.

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  4/23/2023 - gfwetzel Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Drank over an hour after 3 hours in a decanter. The color is a clear medium garnet. The nose has cherries, a touch of menthol, some underbrush and just a hint of cigarbox.
  
  The palate has sage, cumin, some black fruit, oak. The acid is medium and with fine grained tannins that lend a slightly drying aspect to the medium+ finish. The wine is young yet and rough around the edges. It needs a few years to integrate and balance. ABV 14.5%.

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