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2012 Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di Montalcino Pianrosso
4/4/2024 - texanoblues Likes this wine:
Dark red and clear in the glass with some bricking at the edges. Mesmerizing nose with cherry, dark chocolate, plum, dried flowers, and truffle. Same notes on the mid palate with balsamic too. Very well balanced with respect to alcohol/acid/tannins with a wonderful melted quality.Very long mouth watering expansive finish that echoes the initial notes with some mint as well. What can you say, other than that this is one damned fine Brunello. Very similar to my all time favorite Brunello, the 06 tenuta nuova.
These notes are from a bottle that's been corked and kept at 4C in the refrigerator for about 4 days. The first glass upon opening was more harsh and closed down. The long slow oxidation really worked wonders on this one.
95-96 all day long in my book. And good chance it will even further improve over the coming years.
Correction.... After again enjoying the nose... 96-97
Really just stunning nose on this one.
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2010 Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino
2/27/2024 - texanoblues Likes this wine:
Deep red with no bricking and maybe still a hint of youthful violet. Really stunning and open nose with black cherry, black pepper, and dried flowers. You don't have to bury your nose in the glass It's wonderfully fragrant. Same notes on the palate driven by a flawless structure. Perfectly balanced with respect to acid alcohol and tannins. Still a little firm and austere. But nothing another ten years in the cellar won't cure. And the finish is magnificent. Expansive and long finish that echoes the initial notes with some menthol as well with loads of fine powdery tannins.
Despite it being still a little austere. It was a 94-95 in my book.
A really great wine to me is one that when you open it and experience it memories come forward of the first time you drank it. Even the nose of this one takes ne back the Angelina Ristorante on Broadway in Chicago. 2015. Dinner with the realtor to celebrate the purchase of my home there. Funny... I hadn't thought about that for years. But now.... Every detail comes back.
Sadly, it's my last of a case and it's a bittersweet joy to bid farewell to this one.
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2010 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'Ampuis
12/30/2023 - texanoblues Likes this wine:
Red with dark core. No violet or bricking. The nose is open with olive, smoke, raspberry and cherries. Same notes on the mid palate. All supported by a flawless structure. Impossible to overstate how well balanced this bottle is with respect to alcohol/salinity/acidity and tannins. Just phenomenal. Long finish of tart cherry and prominent granite ash. With loads of very fine grained flour like tannins.
So much stone and minerality combined with focused and precise fruit, supported by a perfect structure.....
If I were to offer a numerical score it would be much higher than recent tasters here on CT. 95-97 in my book. Easy.
Its beautiful now and will be beautiful in different ways over the next twenty years or so.
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