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2006 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Poggio all'Oro Riserva
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2006 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Poggio all'Oro Riserva

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

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91(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2012

Bright full red.  Mellow aromas of raspberry, dried flowers and smoky oak.  Silky and seamless in the mouth but not overly sweet, with harmonious acidity giving shape and grip to the deep flavors of red berries and smoky underbrush.  A bit more old-fashioned in style than the spicier 2007 Poggio Alle Mura, finishing with very firm, slightly clenched tannins and sneaky persistence.  The wine's solid acidity carries its fruit nicely on the aftertaste.

90 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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