2004 Brunello di Montalcino, Cerbaiona (750ml)

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Vintage: 2004
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Brunello di Montalcino
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Appellation: Brunello di Montalcino
Producer: Cerbaiona
Varietal: Sangiovese
Type: Red
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany
Sub-Region: Montalcino
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Tasting note: The estate’s 2004 Brunello di Montalcino is simply extraordinary. Enticing layers of mint, violets, black cherries, menthol and minerals lead to an explosive core of fruit. The wine continues to grow in the glass, showing off its first-class pedigree. Amazingly pure, textured and rich, this vivid, chiseled Brunello dazzles from start to finish, where balsamic notes make a final appearance. If forced to drink only one wine from Montalcino, I might very well choose Diego Molinari’s sumptuous Brunello. This is an incredible wine! Anticipated maturity: 2012-2024. Diego Molinari’s Brunellos are among the finest wines of Montalcino, and Italy, for that matter. This small vineyard is one of the most privileged spots in all of Tuscany. The property has been rumored to be for sale for some time, and the new owners, whoever they ultimately are, will have a very tall order in trying to match the level of these wines. I can only hope they succeed, because a world without the Brunellos of this jewel of an estate would be tragic. (97pts AG, Wine Advocate)

Tasted: Jun 2009
Score: 97
Drink: 2012-2024

Tasting note: Bright, saturated dark red. High-pitched, perfumed aromas of crushed raspberry, pungent minerality and rose petal. Silky, suave and refined, with lovely clarity and class to the pure flavors of crushed red berries and flowers. Not as big as the 2001, and more dominated in the early going by treble notes, but this is wonderfully sappy and insinuating wine with a superb rising finish. Its almost liqueur-like red cherry flavor is joined by deeper notes of leather and earth-plus a suggestion of exotic flowers-after extended aeration. A beauty, and now routinely one of the best Brunellos of each new vintage. (94pts Stephen Tanzer, IWC)

Tasted: Jul/Aug 2009
Score: 94
Drink: N/A