1988 Pertimali (Livio Sassetti) Brunello di Montalcino

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  3/22/2024 - Neecies Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Bill's. Paired with a '95 Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona, a very good wine but not the temptress this one was. Lightly floral nose on sweet dark fruit, balanced and surprisingly fresh. Outstanding.

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  1/15/2024 - baroloboy55-2.0 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I had pulled the 1988 Pertimali Bruno di Montalcino as a back-up bottle to the 88 Pergole Torte about which I posted yesterday. Acquired on release. This cork was also in good shape, and I followed about the same decanting protocol as the PT. The initial impressions were positive, indeed there was a very fine bouquet of spice, leather and cedar that I found a bit lacking in the PT. The wine was very good, rich and round and with all of the flavor notes I'd expect to see in a BdM of this age and fine vintage, markedly on the redder side of the sangiovese color spectrum. In contrast to the PT, there was less acidity than the PT, so the wine came across as somewhat less structured. It seemed almost a bit watery in the center. So this showed as perhaps slightly on the downslope but was still a very heady experience. I'd say that it's greatest shortcoming that it was consumed 24 hours after a monumental bottle of Pergole Torte.

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  8/6/2023 - SpenceP wrote: 95 Points

  Extremely fragile cork--opening the bottle would have been a nightmare without a Durand opener. Once opened-- Licorice, figs, cherries, autumn forest after a heavy rain, tobacco, carob, camphor, followed by an extremely long and intense aftertaste with roasted almonds and a touch of bitterness. An old and civilized gentleman of a wine. This is, at this stage of its development, an amazingly complex but very subtle wine--most food will overpower it. I'd pair it with something very very neutral--perhaps roast chicken or grilled tuna, without any sauce but butter. The wine will repay you for the quietness of the cuisine. Really fabulous, but, if this bottle is typical, this is near the end of its peak--if you have this in your cellar, I'd suggest drinking this as soon as is convenient. I personally would avoid decanting this wine--over time the aftertaste lengthens but the complexity fades. Best served on the cool side of red wine temperatures. [Stored upright for more than a week before opening to allow the sediment, of which there is plenty, to settle out. Tasted over an hour and a half from the Jancis Robinson glass. Also very briefly tasted from the Conterno glass, from which the wine seemed much older and less appealing.]

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  6/28/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Bottles shared by friends 🙂 (San Diego, CA): N: Savory, meaty, tobacco, choc, poss notes of smoke & spice?
  
  P: LM, poss Med, body; LOVELY frt met by BEAUTIFULLY balancing acidity which SEAMLESSLY evolves into quite a LONG, BALANCED finish with some very, VERY fine tannins, but with a swtness &, ult, a very, VERY slight bitterness that adds to the complexity. 13.5% ABV; [As of early Dec '20, wine-searcher shows no sources for this vintage].

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  5/10/2018 - JEP007 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  PNP a few weeks ago. It was very enjoyable for the first hour, then started to fade. Probably past it's prime, but out the gate went galloping, then petered out.

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