TN: Proprieta Franceshi Il Poggione Brunello Di Montalcino 2014

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Decanted for 90 minutes.

First impressions.

Medium garnet colour in the glass with slight coppering on the rim. On the nose, savoury, fennel, green herbs and tar. No presence of oak and the fruit, if it is there, is hard to detect and tertiary. On the palate, it is high acid, big tannins, black tea and green capsicum.

This wine is wound so tight it was not presenting itself. The high acid and tannins almost threw it out of balance.

We had dinner, pictures below, Malaysia is not perfect, but that spread was $30AUS and easily filled the four of us.

Two hours later, it was a different wine.

The nose has strawberries, tomato vine, white pepper and sweet nutmeg with some mushroom sitting in the background. Masculine, certainly, but approachable. The palate was excellent. The acid was well in balance, the tannins, while persistent and powdery, held appeal rather than aggression. In the mouth were the strawberries, black tea and subtle, sweet spices of nutmeg. Excellent textured mouthfeel, mouth-watering acidity and gripping tannins.

This is a very good wine that was opened before its time.

90 pts.

Drink 2025-2030.

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