1997 Tenimenti Angelini Brunello di Montalcino Val Di Suga

After the recent discussion around brunello, I decided to try another one tucked down downstairs. This time it was the 1997 Tenimenti Angelini Brunello di Montalcino Val Di Suga. Having agreed they go well with food, I invited a friend over to watch the Wallabies get beaten up by the South African at rugby and cooked a stracci pasta with sausage meat, roast peppers ragu and ligurian olives. Excellent food for the wine, terrible game. As for the wine itself, I am now sadly half way through the case. Previously I have thought very little of the wine as it lacked anything of real interest. Now however with 12 years of age, it has soften and taken on a new sense of depth that was previously lacking. A dark cherry nose, a medium bodied wine with dusty fruit showing again dark cherries and plums with that Dutch salty licorice taste I find only in Brunello. I am pleased to have a few left, we shall see how it goes over the next few years.