2004 Le Presi Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  6/28/2018 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Fully mature and sooner than I thought it would be. Not just open, or accessible, but totally transformed and at a bona fide peak, and a mighty high peak at that. The only thing I could think was, bam, this is real wine. A traditional, old-style wine showing exactly why you age them. The color is light crimson and rust with orange/amber hues, the texture is glossy with the structure almost totally resolved, the aroma has a nice big punch of earthy funk that segues to tobacco and leather boots, and the flavors are just perfect mature wine, I-gotta-sit-down-for-this, totally fruitless but with even more intensity of flavor than when it was young.

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  9/3/2015 - keepitreal wrote: 90 Points

  Delicious, full dark red fruit palate. Gravelly and rich, with some tobacco and licorice and slightly herbal. Decent acid pairs well with food - this wine could probably last a few more years but why wait as it's pretty much perfect right now.

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  10/20/2013 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:

  A very enjoyable Brunello. Dark ruby with an inviting aroma of tart cherry, dusty earth, anise, and rose petal. It is quite intriguing to smell. Still young on the palate with notable tannins, but flavor and acidity to balance them well. Good now with decanting and food. Will certainly continue to improve for several years. Very tasty and for the price, quality Brunello.

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  5/20/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points

  Wonderful stuff, beginning with the room-filling aromatics as I decanted the bottle. A beautiful scent but an atypical one for a red wine, almost a throwback - it's fruity, but this isn't the scent of berry fruit. It's apples, so fresh and evocative it feels like you're buried to the waist in a cider crushing vat. An ethereal fragrance that lingers in the air like a perfume. But the wine is more gritty and substantial than the aroma prepares you for. It is unapologetically herbal with a bit of verdant seasoning as well as a deeper, darker brown tobacco flavor. The gravelly minerality that was prominent in the '95 vintage that captivated me last week is almost too subtle here to notice, but it's there. While this is not difficult to appreciate on its own terms as a very classical Brunello, I'm very grateful to have experienced the '95 because this is still almost a bare-bones rough sketch compared to a final composition. I can't wait to try this in another 10-20 years.

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  2/17/2009 - hutch wrote: 90 Points

  Via: The Big Red Tour (Boston, MA): More funkaliciousness on the nose. Not really fruit forward. A little more traditional. Medium bodied. Good stuff. 89-92

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