2006 Capanna Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  2/11/2024 - repoper wrote: 95 Points

  Slow oxed all day then I poured a small glass. The cork looked brand new only saturated about 1/4”. So dark that you can’t see any sign of age. The nose explodes with notes of cherry, eucalyptus, cardamom, fresh cut flowers and cinnamon. Still has enough tannin to keep this young and lively. Sweet cherry cough syrup, bitter orange and barnyard notes. This is what a great Brunello is all about. In a great spot but probably can age for many more years. Sadly only one more left. Tonight just shining. 94-95. I think I already won the Super Bowl. LOL.
  I kept one glass to revisit tonight. The wine has not budged the tannins are a bit smoother maybe enhancing the drinking experience. There are no great wines only great bottles. This was a great bottle. Maybe a point or two higher.

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  12/10/2023 - finlero Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Deep, clean violet, almost no signs of age. Open nose with classic BdM notes of plum, saddle leather, camphor. Bold, masculine palate, still a prevalent amount of black and then red fruit, underpinned by an earthy minerality. Very long finish, with really grippy tannins, as well as a noticeable burn (label says 15% and I could easily believe it's up closer to 15.5%). Built like a true Riserva, this is showing beautifully right now, somewhere towards the start of a long peak window. Surely at least a 25-year wine, and 30 years or more wouldn't surprise me.

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  3/11/2022 - winespine Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This is a gorgeous wine. We served it with Casarecce con Salsiccia and what a beautiful pairing. We tasted the '06 Riserva at Capanna in 2014 alongside multiple vintages of the Normale, including the 2006, and the 2004 Riserva. Riserva wines are only made in excellent vintages and both 2004 and 2006 were excellent vintages in Montalcino. Gorgeous wines, all of them, but I was a little worried the '06 Riserva wine had too much alcohol. Still, because '06 was an excellent vintage, when this showed up at the local retailer a year later I grabbed 6. I took a chance that it would come together with age, and it did exactly that. Normally I would give a wine like this a long slow-ox in the bottle, opening in the AM and letting it breath all day. I forgot! So I decanted it for 4 hours before serving and wow, did it come around. Fermented in steel and aged in botti so any oak influence is subtle. I won't rush on my remaining bottles, but good to know how enjoyable it is now with a good food pairing and a decant.

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  7/28/2021 - Greg_O wrote: 87 Points

  Not a great showing. Too much alc. Has not aged gracefully.

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  8/13/2020 - GFischmann Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Still drinking well with nice balance with good balance of acid and residual tannins. Nice evolution of the secondary and tertiary flavors. Great wine

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