During the last tasting session for Tasted 100% Blind, the 2007 Best Sommelier of the World Andreas Larsson seemed really touched by our wines.
Here's what Larsson said about them, which resulted as the greatest wines tasted in that session.
Brunello di Montalcino 2009
Red wine with a medium dense ruby-red core, it has some more evolution on the rim; quite viscous with clearly marked legs. Intense nose with some evolution and complexity here; I get a lot of spiciness here, dry spices, with some notes of walnut, leather, sweet plum, tobacco; quite complex. The palate is really bold and opulent, and I think it’s nicely balanced in this style, without any hint of sweetness. It has a very broad and lush structure with plenty of extract, but I think those tannins are really fine, well-integrated, they add freshness and length to this like cocoa powder. Sweet red and dark fruit. I think the oak is very well-treated and integrated as well. Really broad, with a very good length. It really keeps lingering, with that fine spiciness and sweet fruit going on in the finish. Certainly a wine of very good pedigree, something we can comfortably put back in the cellar for 10-15 years, but I find this very drinkable right now. It’s lush, it’s bold, it has plenty of tannin, but it’s all well in balance now; and with a nice meal, I would take great pleasure in drinking this. 95
Ombrone 100 Sant'Antimo 2011
Very youthful colour here, very intense almost opaque at the core, still appearing very young due to that blue-purple; dense, very dense. Very nice nose here. Very perfumed, and I think this is a nice mix between really ripe unctuous black fruit like cassis, dark cherry. Fine spiciness as well. There’s a slightly meaty character here, almost like bacon, smoked meat, with pepper, sweet spices. A hint of oak in the background but it’s really that luscious dark fruit that plays first fiddle. That’s bloody good actually! Very dense palate, lovely pure black fruit, cassis, slightly herb-infused with ripe herbs like mint, sage, sweet cassis, dark plum, really multilayered. It’s still youthful so it doesn’t really have a lot of complexity but it has layers, it has nuance, a very very long finish. I like that combination between that density with rich extract, finely polished, and a very very long finish. This is really a serious wine that will develop for a long time, but I find it bloody delicious already today. 94
We now have 5 wines in the global Top 200 by Tasted 100% Blind: Brunello di Montalcino 2009 in 47th position, Ombrone 100 Sant'Antimo 2011 in 115th, Ombrone 2009 in 145th, Brunello di Montalcino 2005 in 174th and Brunello di Montalcino 2006 in 176th.
And here's the Top 20 of all the Italian wines ever tasted by Andreas Larsson.
