Community Tasting Notes 14

• davidkatz62 Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 8, 2024 - If you didn’t believe the recommendation to drink this by 2012 you’re in luck. Just drank with osso buco which is a great pairing. Still has lovely fruit and good structure. Can probably go a few more years, maybe to 2030. But I don’t think it will get any better.

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• Mall Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 31, 2022 - The cork is in perfect condition as is the content of the bottle. I have bought it almost 30 years ago, unfortunately it is my last bottle. Dark Bordeaux color, ripe fruits of the forest, herbs, mellow tannins. Great Pleasure at the end of 2022

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• cooberp Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 14, 2014 - Much fresher and darker-colored than the tired 1985's I've had of this wine. All the secondary notes you look for in mature Brunello are here--leather, smoke, and earth--alongside a generous helping of atypically dark blackberry fruit, an herbal note, and lively acidity. Tannin to go for awhile longer, but the structure has receded and is no longer obtrusive. Maybe a bit too biting, but this is a textbook example of what a well-made, somewhat ripe/extracted Sangiovese ages into.

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• KeithAkers wrote: 93 points

  September 12, 2012 - Brunellos 15+ years and older (Moderno, Highland Park IL): nose: like the other wines, this was actually on the tight side at first. After a short bit, it opened up to reveal lovely and flowing tones of roses, red fruits, dark red cherries, dark berries and some licorice tones as well. I would've liked some more depth to it, but that's more quibbling.
  
  taste: Medium bodied with medium acidity. There is still some tannin to this and everything is beautifully balanced. Refined and lovely with tones of red fruits, roses, dark red cherries, licorice and some incense on the back end.
  
  overall: there was some bricking to this, but it was rather dark for it's age. It started to fall off a bit later in the evening, but that was after it was open for 4ish hours. A lovely brunello that shows why I do enjoy brunellos with this kind of age on them.

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• Papies wrote: 89 points

  January 30, 2011 - Nice, ok but past its prime and a bit one dimensional. A bit too sweet fruit. Would have prefered some structure in this. Drink now

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1990
• Type Red
• Producer Poggio Antico
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Code 8032635881725

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• In Cellars 110 (65%)
• Consumed 59 (35%)

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