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Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino 2011
Montalcino, Siena, Tuscany, ItalyBrunello di Montalcino is sangiovese from the town of Montalcino, in Tuscany, near Siena, and this wine is from vines 20+ years old, aged in French oak for three years and then bottle aged. This is an intense, pointed wine, with precison focus on black cherry, tobacco, cured leather and ample brown spice. Tannins are grippy, gritty, sinewy and work to frame the intensity and expansion here, still powerful six years on. Salt roasted walnuts linger on the grippy finish. The 2011 is more severe than the 2012, but with an air of refinement that's hard to mimic. Drink now with rabbit or pork tenderloin.Tasted: 19 September 2017Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| BC | $76.00 | 750ml | private wine shops |
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Grape: SangioveseCSPC: 502716
