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1990 Val di Suga Brunello di Montalcino Vigna del Lago
Sangiovese
- Italy
- Tuscany
- Montalcino
- Brunello di Montalcino
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Community Tasting Notes 4
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melvinyeowq Likes this wine:
June 21, 2021 - Dibbs's birthday: Strange bottle shape and even stranger that I've somehow never heard of this producer before. A great example of an aged Brunello, haven't had many that aged so gracefully. A wine with everything amplified - fruit, acidity and structure. Mostly sweet tannins, could imagine this being an oaky mess when young, but age has integrated the wood. More immediate pleasure than the Las Cases but less complexity and depth.
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Dibbs Likes this wine: 93 points
June 20, 2021 - This wine proves that Brunellos can age perfectly. The wine tasted like it was from 2001 vintage rather than 1990. It is a structured wine with elegance gained through age. Drinking beautifully now. If you have that weirdly shaped bottle, drink it up.
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Goldstone Likes this wine: 90 points
April 29, 2015 - HK Wine Society Tasting & Dinner: Mature Brunello, 1975-1998 (Langham Palace Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong): Tasted blind in a line-up of 12. Transparent, bright and youthful-looking but with a hint of amber at the meniscus. Nose is very reticent but hints at ripe raspberry and faint oak....young. Palate is youngish but has extended into its drinking window. Nail varnish on entry, good dry brick and fruit then very resonant and reverberant inside the head on the finish. A great wine that I really 'get'. This was the group's #2 and my #6.
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Chateaunewf wrote: 88 points
June 20, 2008 - Almost opaque black in color. A big massive, muscular wine that has thrown big sediment but remains inpenetrably dark. Tannic and a bit coarse on the palate to the detriment of fruit flavor and balance. This is a winter wine that requires a bold dish to act as a foil. It seems a bit roasted and overextracted. This seems more like aliganico than sangiovese and may have some other varietals included. Maybe it is just this bottling as I am unfamiliar with the vineyard location nor have I tastd in previously.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1990
- Type Red
- Producer Val di Suga
- Varietal Sangiovese
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Vigna del Lago
- Country Italy
- Region Tuscany
- SubRegion Montalcino
- Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 20 (77%)
- Consumed 6 (23%)
Food Pairing
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- ProducerVal di Suga
- VarietySangiovese
- VineyardVigna del Lago
- CountryItaly
- RegionTuscany
- SubRegionMontalcino
- AppellationBrunello di Montalcino
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