2001 La Magia Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  10/7/2023 - Jochems Likes this wine: 93 Points

  So this is a remarkable re-encounter with this wine. Today I visited a friend of mine who joined me on my first visit to La Magia back in 2005. It was the year that we bought quite a bit of that epic 1999 Brunello Riserva. And a year later this 2001 Brunello.
  Now I had finished all my bottles many years ago. He still had one left.
  Today we drank it alongside the 2012 Brunello. It is in superb shape!
  
  Ruby/garnet colour. Full aromas of fresh cherry, leather, some hay and bayleaf and hints of wet earth and mushrooms. Full bodied with silky smooth tannins and sweetness of fruit. A long finish that remains fresh.
  Drink now!

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  11/10/2017 - ThalesGaspar Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Delicious old Brunello. Tertiary and complex. Drink soon.

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  4/13/2015 - kanjimoti wrote: 89 Points

  Slightly rusty red here after a little over 13 years in the bottle. I'm sure it's not as dark as it was upon release. On the nose I get a musty closet, mothball smell along with high pitch pine resin, rooty earth and soil, and a touch of clove and leather. The fruit has either boarded the train and left the station or is buried under everything else meaning this is in a very backward stage. I'm thinking the fruit has mostly left the building never to return. Where does it go? The palate is a bit dilute, hard, and angular with a ton of menthol but again almost no fruit. I can appreciate the Mangia for being old world but is just not very friendly. To sum it all up I would describe this as a disjointed lean machine. Drink now through 2018.

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  1/15/2015 - matt5588 wrote: 90 Points

  very good brunello bought @la fotezza in montalcino

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  12/25/2013 - matt5588 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Opened one hour prior to dinner which was rack of lamb. Dark ruby color with strong black fruit coming out along with a licorice with a hint a chocolate on the back side. Very good Brunello happy to have three bottles left

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