2015 Tenuta le Potazzine Brunello di Montalcino
Community Tasting Note
PIZZAandBAROLO Likes this wine:
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 4+ hour decant and hours more time in the glass, this improved a bit but it's still somewhat closed and seems to not want to really express itself too much just yet. But it shows some of its charms, a glimpse, letting you know more patience will be required to experience more of what's hiding beneath.
The tannins are fine but grainy. More cellar time, 2-3 years and perhaps more air time out of the bottle would inch this closer to drinking it's potential and into it's early drinking window.
This has compact and concentrated red fruits, sweet wild berries, some spice, mineral, earth, and leather. The delivery is very focused. There is a cherry syrup/sappy-ness on the longish finish.
While very elegant, this possesses a focused harnessed power. In a few years, with more time in bottle, this Italian stallion, I'm sure, will run triumphantly through the fields and the forests.
The BdM made by these "chicks" is superb and one of my favorites.
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Comment posted by jrick:
5/13/2024 1:30:00 AM - Cool, I have one bottle of this. Actually thought it would be more open for drinking than what you seem to have found it to. Visited this estate as well last year, very cool. A lot more "business" than what I would have imagined though, with a very beautifully renovated cellar.
Comment posted by PIZZAandBAROLO:
5/13/2024 5:05:00 AM - Yes I was hoping so too, especially since I gave it a 4 hours+ decant. But I think this just needs a couple of more years of rest to start to get into it's window.