Community Tasting Notes 45

• Livonietisr Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 5, 2023 - Deep tawny color. Aromas of plums, prunes, raisins, tomato, leather, chocolate, earth. High acidity, plenty of silky tannins. Taste of dark cherries, dried cherries, dark chocolate. Complex, with great concentration and extra long. Superb example of clasic brunello.

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• pouncey wrote: 89 points

  January 23, 2022 - I tried this with an hour decant out of the Coravin and then the next night I opened the bottle and PnP’d. Both ways it seemed over the hill to me. Lots of stewed plum and overripe dark fruits. Some leather and a bit of spice but I’m getting very little acidity which makes this flabby at best. I did taste this wine years ago and it was stunning. I feel I waited too long on this one. It’s not the wine’s fault. I know this is a great wine, but 18 years may be too much.

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• Neurowine1 Likes this wine:

  January 21, 2020 - From magnum. This is drinking beautifully at the moment. Classically styled but with an effusive noise of candied black cherry and mushroom. Perfect with wood fired pizza. Extremely classy and put together juice. No reason to hang onto this.

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• nschmidt Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 1, 2019 - Opened my first of 3 bottles with some trepidation given the mixed reviews. The wine had medium level of dark fruit and smooth tannins and was right in my happy zone. Old world finesse.

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• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  March 13, 2019 - Dim Sum Club at The Spot (The Spot, Marina One, Singapore): Very pleasant. This was a classic Brunello. The nose had lovely notes of dried earth, fresh minty herbs, a bit of dried meat, all riding on a core of dark berry fruit. Just lovely, and oh so very Tuscan. The palate had a lovely shape to it, with firm but finely-shaped tannins and lovely fresh acidity framing well-defined flavours of black cherries and dark berries seasoned with lifted notes of spice, herb and a just that edge of bloody meatiness, all gliding into a long, detailed, surprisingly complex finish. Delicious stuff. Lacking the stuffing of the Riserva, but really a accomplished, even polished Brunello shaped in absolutely classic style.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Conti Costanti
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Codes 726452009384, 726452013008

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• Pending Delivery 6 (1%)
• In Cellars 358 (59%)
• Consumed 241 (40%)

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