1971 Fattoria dei Barbi Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90 points

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  1/16/2021 - Bruce L Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Beautiful wine. Brick red colour wonderful harmonious flavours, long finish, fully ready to drink but still very much alive. Wish I still had more.

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  7/10/2017 - tomoem wrote: 86 Points

  Harsh, very cloudy in the glass, and light(ish) in color, but drinkable. Its aroma's tease as they are abundantly present and are composed of slightly rotting strawberry (where you can find edible portions around the rotting fruit), overly ripened raspberry (again eating only un-rotted sections), and a not so rotted blueberry.
  
  It is acidic dominant but friendly if you welcome it. It has clearly seen its best days but aside from the overly acidic forward notes in this wine, there appears some background fruits which are made of notes which I describe as nearly rotted but not rotten.
  
  It is an exotic expression of a by-gone era. Worth having........ but do not expect youth or filtered behavior.

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  6/11/2011 - psmith wrote:

  Soft red fruits and mushroom. Somewhat faded, with a murky amber color and light body. Little structure. Enjoyable.

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