2004 Tenuta San Leonardo San Leonardo

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  2/11/2024 - #1 or #2? Likes this wine: 93 Points

  this is 20 years old?! colour is dark and opaque. nose leans deceptively new world with a bouquet offering up ink, blackberry and cassis, dusty earth, pepper, spearmint and asian spices. palate is the star of the show… sweet and tart berry notes segue into savoury ones of bacon, dark bitter cocoa, pepper, finishing on an attractive mineral saline close.

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  3/26/2023 - Guido L. wrote: 92 Points

  Drank in December 2022. This bottle was slightly weaker than previous one.

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  4/24/2022 - Eric Guido Likes this wine:

  The bouquet is darkly alluring, pulling me closer to the glass, revealing rich smoky blackberry and plums, contrasted with savory spice, sage and peppery florals. It's graceful with cool-toned precision, yet also soothing and ripe, lifted by brisk acids. Saline-minerals add verve and a tactile feel. This finishes long, focused on dried red currants, with a tug of youthful tannins, as purple-tinged florals slowly fade.

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  4/24/2021 - RED AND BLACK wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted 2 hrs. First time with this wine. The nose reminds of Bordeaux and super-tuscans, though you understand this is neither. Lighter bodied than those two, it is more on the gentle side, with higher acidity, but on palate there is a lot of similarity with super-tuscans (I found this closer to the Tuscan side than the the French). There are spices and leather, balsam herb. Overall a really impressive wine, Bordeaux style, but coming from an unlikely Bordeaux region! Worth trying

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  3/20/2020 - 5laton wrote: flawed

  This was very unlike other vintages I've had of this wine. Smelled like a Rhone rather than a Bordeaux wine, with smoke, game, barnyard, brettanomyces. Palate showed more smoky game and some sweet dark fruit compote. With air it gained a prune-y, maderized quality. Cork was streaked halfway up with dried wine, so this may have seen elevated temperatures. With air it developed a significantly maderized character. I'm calling this as cooked.

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