Community Tasting Note

• briandavispdx wrote: 89 points

  July 28, 2014 - Served with a duck ragu after a two-hour decant. Dark cherries, coffee, and well-oiled black leather in the nose. Pleasantly smooth on the tongue, with tannins having clearly mellowed in the year or two since my last bottle. Medium-length but multi-faceted finish with fennel and cinnamon lingering. The complexity of the well-integrated tannins was appreciated, but it had a little trouble standing up to the richness of the ragu.
  
  All-in-all, a good but not great Brunello that appears to be peaking now, a good bit earlier than other 2004 Brunellos I've tried lately. Drink up!

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