2001 Nannetti Brunello di Montalcino i Verbi

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  6/26/2017 - dsgris Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Inky dark ruby with cassis nose. Dry savory fruit a bit of smoky tannins that are softening. Bold fruit and body with a lot of earthy, leather, balsam and forest notes. Tart cherries, olive brine with some nice acid to balance the fruit and tannnins. Lovely after 16 years, supposedly this Verbena wine was made to drink young, but has aged well. I need to start drinking some of my older Italians. Three nights later and this is going strong, chewy tannins, brambles and cherries witha good streak of tartness and complexity. A thick body balanced well by the tart fruit.

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  1/30/2017 - dsgris Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark garnet ruby with bricking rim. I opened on night one, it needed some time, so I left the in glass covered which usually works well as a decant method. Not this time, and the wine degraded significantly to barely drinkable.
  I decided to give it a second chance, and night two was where it should be. Night two, ripe bramble nose, medium acid, full, but restrained fruit, ripe cherries, earth, mushroom and leather, chewy tannins with a bit of bitter. Long finish. Lesson learned, old wines can be more delicate than young wines.
  On night three, getting a lot of savory notes, olive brine, sour cherries and red plums, beef blood with a goodly amount of acid with a few stone fruit tannins to bracket the fruit. Really need a good grilled steak with this.

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  2/21/2016 - GoBlue2002 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Last bottle of 7, quite sad.
  This was the most mature of the lot, and lacked the brett character of a few of the previous bottles.
  A lovely mature brunello.

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  4/17/2015 - dsgris Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark ruby with ripe plum nose. Dry tannins with tart mineral, barnyard and earth, bright berry, red currants, well resolved tannins with the acid prominent. Should last for many years. Resting in the refer for a week and has only gotten better with juniper berry adding to the complexity.

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  12/29/2014 - dsgris Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark, dark ruby, ripe fruit mineral nose. Dry, restrained ripe fruit, well integrated acid on the front and stone fruit tannins on the finish. Well balanced, restrained fruit, some mineral barnyard and leather. Drinking very well on the PnP. Lovely Tuscan red.

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