2016 Fattoria Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 95.1 points

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  5/28/2023 - StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 95 Points

  95p today for this aggressive bastard!
  Enormous upside with a very long rest in the cellar.
  Everything you ever wanted from a BdM, you can find in this bottle!
  Jädrar anåda!
  If this was a car, it'd be a space rocket!

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  3/12/2023 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  Textbook Sangiovese, combing the aromatic profile with a perfect level of ripeness and an airy texture. There are still some hard edges but nothing time won’t be able to solve. 94/95 pts today with more upside in the future once it softens further.
  
  TN: Intense, quite expressive bouquet with the typical Sangiovese aromas of warm, dry earth, some leafy notes, some tomate leafs, then red berries, ripe and dry. Quite enticing. On the palate this shows quite complex with lots of red and darker red fruits, lots of herbal and earthy notes. The layerdness and precision are the highlight here. The tannins will certainly need to soften further but are of high quality. Superb freshness. Very good balance.
  
  Decanting: Aerated in the glass for 30+ minutes. I guess 2, 3 or even 4 hours in the decanter could help here.

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  3/11/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  Tasted at the Matter of Taste Zurich, Top Rated Wines of 2022 Masterclass. From Magnum. Monika Larner explained that Brunellos from the Southern part of Tuscany tend to have to be darker in terms of fruit with more richness. 45 year old wines on schist and marine fossil soils. I still found the fruit to be mostly red cherry, but with a notable earthy base, a bit of smoke and a herbal dimension. This gained in complexity and expression, adding more dried herbs. Juicy and incredibly fresh palate with electric acidity, but rather drying tannin. Definitely promising and would have been worth following over a longer time frame.

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  3/11/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  Matter of Taste 100 Point Master Class: During a MOT masterclass. I am a fan of Poggio di Sott but not of the extra oak aging Riserva concept. More oxidative oak aging does not always do good to Brunellos. I can see this here. Earthy, closed, a touch rustic wine with luvage aromas emerging that may suggest this had too much air already. I would buy the normal cuvee to be safe and saving money.

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  10/14/2022 - ivar@ordo.as wrote: 92 Points

  Even better than last time

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