on the nose gasoline and tar, with licorice, stewed red fruit on the palate cooked fruit, menthol, baker's chocolate, plum, sage, walnut, musty, quite tannic, and great acidity very well made, but not the traditional flavor profile you'd expect from a brunello
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(Tenute Silvio Nardi Brunello di Montalcino Vigneto Manachiara) Great blackberry nose; complex flavors of berry, coffee and chocolate; long finish 92+ pts. (100% Sangiovese Grosso; 2 years in French barrique)
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8/25/2013 - ihavezinned wrote: 92 Points
on the nose gasoline and tar, with licorice, stewed red fruit
on the palate cooked fruit, menthol, baker's chocolate, plum, sage, walnut, musty, quite tannic, and great acidity
very well made, but not the traditional flavor profile you'd expect from a brunello
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7/13/2012 - mlawren1 wrote: 92 Points
Great food wine, nice plums and currants.
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6/7/2012 - oenophilip wrote: 92 Points
Tart, sour, dusty cherry that was tightly wound with high acid. Complex, but lacking concentration on the mid-palate.
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4/15/2012 - mlawren1 wrote: 92 Points
Sour cherries an plums with a bit of blackberry underneath.
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12/29/2011 - mlawren1 wrote: 91 Points
Nice wine with good stone fruit in berry with an earthy core.
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