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2005 Salicutti Brunello di Montalcino Piaggione
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2005 Salicutti Brunello di Montalcino Piaggione

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

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , July 2010

Medium ruby. I nitially a little reduced, but opens to show floral aromas of red fruit, sweet spices and minerals. Enters smooth and deep, displaying a strong mineral underpinning to the ripe red fruit flavors. Finishes with polished, smooth tannins and a lingering saline note. This outstanding 2005 Brunello displays an uncanny combination of seamless texture and sneaky concentration.

92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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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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