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2006 Poggio Antico Brunello di Montalcino Altero
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2006 Poggio Antico Brunello di Montalcino Altero

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

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93(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2011

Bright, deep red.  Aromas of black raspberry and sexy oak are a bit less forthcoming than those of the classico.  Thick and sweet but with great energy in the mouth, although quite closed in on itself today.  Today this very dense, tightly coiled wine shows less minerality but more chocolatey oak than the regular cuvee and would appear to need longer in bottle to come into harmony.  Late notes of coffee and mocha.

94 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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