Community Tasting Note

• oldwines Does not like this wine: 85 points

  January 29, 2019 - Tasted at Benvenuto Brunello in NYC. Like my observations of the Brunello, this is horrible if you ask me...tannic, flat, over-ripe and unbalanced. Way too tannic for a Rosso di Montalcino. I just don't see/taste what others see/taste in this producer's wines.

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• WineKnurd commented:

  10/27/20, 6:22 PM - Hey oldwines, hope you are are holding up well! Just popped my Il Pog rosso and I have to agree. Haven't gotten into my post-2010 Brunellos yet, but if their rosso is any indication, I might have to start joining the "way to expensive for what you get" club"

• oldwines commented:

  10/27/20, 6:39 PM - Its funny just last week, I just listened to a podcast from Levi Dalton in a series called "I'll Drink to That" from 2014 interviewing Alessandro Bindocci, the son of the guy who put Il Poggione on the map. He claimed to make a traditional style wine...wow hard to believe that by how they taste...for me I've tried numerous of their wines going back to the 2001 Brunello and always seem to have the same reaction..."wines made to please Robert Parker so you can get a high score and make a lot more money"...BUT TASTE LIKE HELL. Cheers!

• WineKnurd commented:

  10/28/20, 3:15 PM - They definitely are more modern, I think 2004 was my first vintage and I thought it was modern but balanced. 2009 was the first one I owned and it about blew my taste buds away but figured it was a product of Parkerization like you said. Sounds like I will need to have a dinner party and go through my bottles. FWIW, Altesino and Livio Sassetti are still pretty traditional.

• oldwines commented:

  10/28/20, 3:29 PM - Totally agree on those other producers...Barbi, Biondi-Santi, Conti Costanti and Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona are excellent traditional style producers I like as well.

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