2004 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Poggio All'Oro

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  8/19/2023 - J_H Likes this wine: 92 Points

  - Beautiful nose, dark fruits, berries, plums and quite a lot of wood and tertiary flavours of leather, balsamic notes and spices.
  - The palate lacks some acidity and the wood flavours take over, also still high tannins. Almost too much body and somehow not quite in balance. Should probably be drunk sooner. Rather harsh to drink compared to 2 years ago.
  - 91-92 points

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  8/19/2023 - Tschudix wrote: 91 Points

  decanted for less than a hour. drunk with Lt and JH. beautiful garnet colour and already some tawny touch. great and intense nose of ripe fruits (especially dark fruits). palate not that fresh. still strong tannins (too much for me). acidity still present but could be fresher. too much wood flavour for my taste. full body and long finsih. overall good wine but too p/p not balanced for me

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  1/2/2023 - N.Bonaparte wrote: 93 Points

  2 years since my last bottle and I’ve been following this since 2012. This still requires a 3 hour decant at the very minimum. Full bodied with some fruit up front and nice balance. This is in a dumb phase right now because it’s quite monolithic. This has the structure to go another ten years easy.

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  11/20/2022 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 93 Points

  bouquet with darkish berry fruit, compot, sous-bois, tobacco, some flesh and barnyard
  
  on the palate very fresh and structured, very dark fruited, rather high extracation and wood, which we find a bit disturbing, high acidity, tannins also high, long finish,
  much power, full body, almost too much…
  
  no decant nessecary

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  1/1/2022 - Terramare Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Our New Year's Day dinner red with our homemade pasta and meatballs. Allowed 10 minutes to open in the glass. This bottle is still showing quite well, even on the second day. We have a couple more bottles yet in stock. Concur with the community end-date average of 2025.

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