Community Tasting Notes 6

• canan wrote: 94 points

  March 19, 2021 - Amazing wine in a tough vintage! Packed with sour cherries in a lush but still very elegant style. The fruit is warm but never overdone and it still seems very young. Good overall structure and it can easily keep a lot longer. Impressive!

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• portman63 Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 19, 2020 - Didn't get to open as early as I'd like but started opening up within 30-60 min to show red cherry fruit and tobacco. Nice mouthfeel with medium body and good acidic lift given the hot vintage. Shows what a top notch winemaker can do managing vineyard and harvest to keep the resulting wine from being over-bearing and short. Really enjoyable and will be for 3-5 years maybe longer.

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• Fabiouk wrote: 89 points

  November 17, 2012 - An interesting 2003 Brunello, deep medium to full body red. Decant it just over 45 min, I really suggest to leave it 90 min. Mushroom, plum, cherry and balsamic predominant on the palat. Leather, cedar and spices in the nose with a medium long finish, unfortunately the tanning acidic taste didn't really integrate with the sweetness of the berry taste but cutting quite sharp instead, I've also noticed that even 3 later the balance wasn't there, it actually got worst loosing most of the nose. Drink now to 2018, amazing with blue cheese...

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• Barry Rothof wrote: 92 points

  February 17, 2012 - Brunello Tasting (@ Wereldmuseum - Rotterdam, Netherlands): Curiously enough, this hot-vintage Brunello has but a medium-minus intense ruby core and a distinctly watery rim with just a smidge of garnet.It does however, show a bit more VA on the medium-minus intense nose, which nonetheless offers up reasonably precise gamey notes, some iron and chlorine minerality. Additional oxygenation unveils red (!) fruits and a flowery component, which lend lift and impart a modicum of elegance.Fullbodied on the attack, the mid-palate is more typically black-fruited and said blueberies and plums are kept fresh by medium-plus acidity while being supprted by supple medium tannins. Added complexity comes from hints of liquorice, beef stock and some dried herbs, which add up to medium-plus flavour intensity and quite good overall balance for a 2003 sporting 14%. It is not until halfway through the 20-25 second finish that a similarly cretaceous touch of minerals starts to surface and while I suspect an early harvest and/or very light extraction, I still consider this wine worthy of 92 points because of its pleasant texture and overall potability. If I had any in the cellar, I would drink my bottles soon...........TN Mike de Lange.

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• wombat wrote: 92 points

  May 23, 2009 - Color: Dark red cherry, 1 1/2 cm transparent pink rim.
  Bouquet: Smoky, vanilla, red and black berry.
  Flavor: Smoky, spicy intense red berry/ cherry with cassis on the mid-palate. Some vanilla and mocha on a long, savory 40 second plus finish.
  Comments: Intense concentrated berry flavors that stand up to the drying tannins. Has the stuffing to keep improving. My favorite of the Enoteca tasting.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• Type Red
• Producer Fattoria Poggio di Sotto
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Code 8032568518026

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• In Cellars 95 (70%)
• Consumed 40 (30%)

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