Community Tasting Notes 6

• Heart Plumber wrote: 80 points

  December 29, 2011 - Some concern initially the bottle was corked, very mossy and Earth aromas before any hint of fruit. Definitely some oxidization at this age. Fruit was sour cherry and tart cranberry with some mineral/chalk. On second thought I'm rating this 75.

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• mmager wrote:

  October 19, 2007 - WineKatz - October 2007 Tasting - Italian Sangiovese (Dave's Place): Main Flight Wine

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• oddangel wrote:

  November 10, 2006 - Tasted it when first open and then about 15 and 30 minutes later. Had a delicate tart and mossy nose with flavors of caramel, sour cherry, and later a raisny flavor reminiscent of a Notapanaro. It didn't get a whole lot better after 30 mins. After that, the acidity started taking over the little of the fruit that was there. Glad I didn't let this go much longer!

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• wolffire wrote:

  March 3, 2006 - Took about a half hour to 45 minutes to open up. When it did, gave lovely notes of dried rose hips, forest floor funk (aka hints of white truffle and mushroom), aged balsamic, toasted almonds and caramel. Palate gave sour cherry, iron and copper notes, and that dark faintly tarry undertone of slovenian oak. Gromit, mtbakerseattle, and I drank this over about an hour and a half. I think we hit the sweet spot in terms of nose and flavor. I'd recommend dirnking this one very soon as I have my doubts it will hold for too terribly much longer.

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• Eric wrote:

  December 2, 2004 - Roy Hersh's 1990 & older tasting of "Wines that don't suck" (Sammamish, WA, USA): I am not giving this a rating, as the bottle was showing clear notes of being oxidized with lots of caramel. Despite this, the palate was actually quite pleasant on a fresh pour with strawberry and balsamic giving way to cranberry. Very vibrant acidity. A number of people commented that this was their favorite of the three on a fresh pour.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1978
• Type Red
• Producer Il Colle
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino

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• In Cellars 21 (34%)
• Consumed 40 (66%)

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