1984 Soldera (Az. Agr. Case Basse) Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 96 points

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  3/15/2017 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This is a perfect soldera. Nose has prune, red fruit, herbs, tar and ash. Palate is so expressive and complex with softened tannins and soaring acidity. Although this wine will stay at this level for many years, it is drinking at peak. This is soldera at its best and its a bad vintage!

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  11/13/2014 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The 1984 Soldera Brunello is in a perfect place right now with no sign of decline. Dried red fruits with hints of mint, dusty minerals and spiced orange came to together to form a stunning bouquet. On the palate, it was soft, yet seemed almost weightless, as dried red fruits were complemented by inner floral tones, herbs and dried spice. The word exotic certainly comes to mind as a burst of acidity invigorated the palate, leaving a clean and lively finish with dried fruits to spare.

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  4/23/2006 - Scheper wrote: 98 Points

  Drank 2 hours after opning. not decanted.
  
  As good as a mature Brunello gets.
  1984 was not a vintage for the ages.. but Gianfranco made something nice here...
  
  the color shows the age. color from deep drk red in the middle to rusty brown. quits transparent. just a little depot.
  
  on the nose there are medicinal tones, leather, licorice, jodium, cranberry and sone crushed berry. no sweet tones here. It is a very promising, aristocratic nose that shows the age of the wine. It not the kind off smeel that blows you away, but the kind that give hope for a 22 year old Brunello.
  
  The taste is great. Of course the nose comes back, but there is also some seet fruit (raspberrie) here along with the forest fruits and berries. nice mediterrenian herbs even. licorice, the last bit of the tannins and, some nice fresh acidity to balance it all.
  And the wine evolves with air... after four hours the wine gains sweetness. and power.... The wine is now even more exciting than the first glass. MAN, what a wine... in fact: this is now the single best Brunello I ever tasted....
  
  And believe it or not.. it has quite a long finish, although also with a bit rough tannins here. minutes after you still have those pretty warm feels in the mouth... and the mouth just keeps asking for more.
  with time the roughness of the tannins in the aftertaste eases down...
  
  I think the wine lost some of its power; its past its ultimate prime, but you could say it entered a new fase that could be mentioned as its second prime. Would love to have tasted this 5 years ago and than now again. well... this is a real treat.
  key words of this wine: delicate, balanced, profound
  and so it comes in my league of honour so:

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