The "poster" on the Web for the Castello Banfi tasting championed the 2010 Brunellos, so I was surprised to see a whole gamut of wines from Tuscany, Piedmont and beyond the other day. However, I was able to taste two stars from that privileged vintage, both single vineyard offerings - Poggio alle Mura and Poggio all'Oro. I think I have a bottle of the 1997 vitage of the former somewhere in my collection, bought from Macau if my memory serves me right. I am sure I had tasted the latter at the Tre Bicchieri tasting in 2011. (Maybe my bottle was the latter and not the former, according to the Tre Bicchieri entry)
Back to the star Brunellos, the Poggio Alle Mura was a nice ruby colour with vanilla wood notes giving way to a mildly fruity nose. Sweet fruit was followed by acid and tannins on the palate, leaving an acid tannic backbone. The Poggio all'Oro was lighter in colour, a plaer ruby, with a berry meaty nose accompnaied by acid.The palate was sweet and fruity, and like the other wine had good support from an acid tannic backbone.
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