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2003 Altesino Brunello di Montalcino
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2003 Altesino Brunello di Montalcino

Producer: Altesino
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Sangiovese
Origin: Italy
Region: Tuscany

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90 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2008

($75) Good full, bright red. Vibrant if idiosyncratic nose offers exotic peach and blood orange suggestions as well as a piquant mineral character. Sweet, intense and cleanly made, with a distinctly penetrating, high-pitched quality to the juicy flavors of red fruits, orange peel and peach. Conveys a strong impression of cooler terroir (Winebow, Inc., Montvale, NJ)

86 Points | Wine Spectator
89 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Sangiovese

The trademark of wines from Tuscany, and especially those from the region of Chianti, was once the fiasco. This straw-colored flask may carry associations of lengthy rustic meals out on the portico of a villa in the Tuscan countryside, but this romantic reverie must be interrupted with a burst of reality...
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