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BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO 2012 DOCG
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note Producer BANFI
Faintly ambering deep brick red colour. Fairly intense, sandalwood-tinged, baked ripe plum-apple nose with some slight cedar notes. Dry, medium bodied, slightly spicy, ripe plum-cherry-apple flavours with a gently complex, lingering, slightly savoury, high acid, sandalwood-tinged finish. Ready-to-drink. Has 14% alcohol and 4 g/L residual sugar. The 2010 (**+) was released on May 28, 2016 at $29.95. CSPC 175091
Type Red Table Wine
Agent Aut Win
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Rating **+(89 points)
Ripe, Tangy, Intense
LCBO Text Status
TASTING NOTE: Castello Banfi's 2012 Brunello di Montalcino is a textbook expression of the vintage. This wine faithfully reflects the warmth of the vintage thanks to aromas of plump cherry, blackberry, spice, grilled herb and rosemary. The bouquet offers a very Mediterranean quality that is saturated, rich and succulent. There's a distant mineral vein that fits perfectly within this aromatic portrait of Sangiovese. Castello Banfi has done a good job building up the mouthfeel in a vintage that has produced many thin and lean wines. This expression offers respectable dimension and depth. Eighty percent of the wine is aged in botte grande and the rest goes into French barrique for two years. Drink Date: 2017-2026. Score - 92 (Monica Larner, robertparker.com, Feb. 28, 2017) Price $ 29.95
Bottle Size 375 mL
Tasting Date vintages release - September 30, 2017
Cases bought 149 (12 bottles per case)

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