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Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino 2016
$570
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You can lose yourself in the bouquet of the 2016 Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino. At one moment, the 2016 shows crushed cherries with autumnal spice; the next, it’s exotic florals and candied orange peels, and at another time flowery undergrowth, white smoke and wild berries. It’s unbelievably soft and pure, lifting the wine through saline-minerals, as sweet notes of cherry and raspberry begin to slowly saturate, yet what they leave behind is youthfully grippy tannins. With how structured the 2016 is today, it’s still enjoyable due to nervous acids and notes of sour citrus, which keep the expression fresh. The 2016 Poggio di Sotto Brunello is really a terrific effort and a classic in the making.
Eric Guido, Vinous
My thoughts on the 2015 to give you an idea of style:
This my friends this is a thing of beauty! Frankly, my tasting budget is blown, big time! I had to try this.
Brunello has such a spectrum of styles from the divine, elegant, and, graceful to the overblown clumsy monsters. I typically play on the side of elegance and into the middle of the spectrum. Poggio di Sotto’s is undoubtedly on the elegant side.
So, Trembles rocks up with a box. We sit, we pour, we proceed to shoot the s@#t. Then that moment after swirling the vino around for a couple of minutes, I smell. That little spark ignites. I’m looking at more than your average Sangio. The conversation shifts from the 123 varieties of heirloom tomatoes he’s planted to a glass full of happiness.
There is something here that takes Sangiovese to a special place, the perfume, the lovely linear shape of fruit, that deceptive depth and length that builds. Here we see a Brunello at 13.5% where many from 2015 are well north of 15%. As expected the pieces fall into place. Low yield, meticulous vineyard work combine to offer fruit with flavour ripeness at much lower sugar levels affording the opportunity to create such an elegant personality in the wine. The superfine tannins have a lovely linear line to them.
I have seen wines like this before. Patience will see them undergo a metamorphosis from a thing of beauty to one of sophistication with an additional level of intrigue as the truffles, forest, subtle generosity of age builds.
Note to self: Review tasting budget!
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