2016 Poggio Antico Brunello di Montalcino Altero, Italy, Tuscany, Wine Review

Vintage: 
2016
Score: 
95
Grade: 
A
Current Price: 
$85.00USD

A beautiful wine.  Deep garnet in color with purple hues, opaque and bright.  The nose is great with cherries, black cherries, sandalwood, tea leaves and cedar.  Full bodied.  Medium to firm tannins.  On the palate, this is young-ish with good fruit and acidity.  Flavors of cherries, black cherries, with some earthiness/forest floor notes.  Complex and deep.  It opens nicely in the glass.  Long finish.  If drinking soon, gives this a quick decant.  This is nice on its own but better with food.   Drink over the next ten to fifteen years.

 

2021 Fattoria Petrolo Galatrona, Italy, Tuscany, Wine Review

Vintage: 
2021
Score: 
96
Grade: 
A
Current Price: 
$110.00USD

This is 100% Merlot from Tuscany.  Inky purple, ruby rim, opaque and bright.  The nose is tight but opens with some air.  Notes of Black cherries, cherries, milk chocolate and spice.  Full bodied.  Firm chewy tannins.  A nice backbone of acidity.  On the palate, flavors of black cherries, cherries, char and spice.  As it opens some chocolate.  Long finish.  This is still young and although it drank well, its best days are ahead.  No harm opening now, but ideally hold for five years and drink for fifteen years after that.  This would go well with Pasta Bolognese (with Mushrooms).  

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