2006 Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (160) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/7/2024 - Mike1369 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Wonderfully classic bdm. Lots of fruit with sour cherry, and darker figgy flavors. Maybe a hint of tart blueberry. Medium tannins. Leather, tobacco, tuscan soil, hints of coffee and some balsamic notes. Some limestone as well on the back end. Paired with charcoal grilled ribeye. This is in a great spot and probably still ascending. It got best after 2 hours in decanter. Enjoyed thoroughly.

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  4/6/2024 - Bill Johnson wrote: 96 Points

  - Brick color - Enjoyed with great friends at a local Italian restaurant. Still beautiful and in a perfect spot. Dark color. Beautiful nose of blue fruit and leather. Dark red fruit also appeared Upon tasting. Was still youthful, Perhaps because it was a double magnum. Showed all the classic characteristics of a BDM. A classic bdm from a classic vintage.
  
  

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  3/23/2024 - walkerjfw wrote: 95 Points

  Dinner w/Chris and Stephanie at Italian Cucina in New Hope (a fantastic corkage friendly place). Last tasting note on this was from 2015, bottles in my cellar from release. It was time to check in on this again, heeding the advice of other tasters, this got a 3 hour decant, rebottled to go to the restaurant. Significant sediment in this bottle.
  
  Garnet/purple color, some thinning at the edges, sediment strained out in the decant. Nose was dark fruit, fig and balsamic. Plate repeats adding notes of blue fruit, black cherry, leather, baking spice. Tannins softened at this stage. Rich and viscous texture, fruits, fig notes go through the mid palate. Fruit displaying a sweetness through the finish. Full body, long finish.
  
  This is in a perfect spot, hitting all the classic BdM notes. The fig and balsamic were really notable. I can't stress enough the importance of the decant. Tasting a splash when opened it was still tight, not showing the characteristics cited in the note (it would have been a 90 vs the 95 I am giving it). At 2 hours it was really showing, we drank after about 3 hours. Well stored bottles still have a way to go - but no reason not to drink this now!

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  1/7/2024 - Robert R. wrote: flawed

  Corked

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  12/30/2023 - heythatslife wrote: 94 Points

  Firing on all cylinders right now with a short decant. Modernist but I was pleasantly surprised to find lots of BdM typicity too.

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