Castello Banfi Poggio alle Mura Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
- Red
- Italy
- Brunello di Montalcino
- Sangiovese
- Tracked vintages
- 15
- Community notes
- 201
- Merchant offers
- 72
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002017 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100201 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £64per 75 cl2013 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021
- Drinking window
- 2025–2030drinking2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 77 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Brunello.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.7 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, cigar box, coffee
- Black fruit · plum, black fruit, black cherry, blackberry, jam
- Earth · leather, earthy, mushroom, underbrush, balsamic
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, cranberry, red cherry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, eucalyptus, mint
- Floral · violet, dried flowers, dried rose
Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2007One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2013
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2020unit not stated
- 201992drinkersunit not stated
- 201893drinkersunit not stated
- 201793critic
- 201693critic
- 201589criticunit not stated
- 201393critic£64 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021
- 201194critic£90 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- 201098critic£58 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2020
- 200992critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
- 200893critic
- 200793critic£52 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
- 1979unit not stated
- 1968unit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2010
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2010
- peak, window 2018–2035
- Lowest price
- 2009
- £37 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | £64 | 93.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021 |
| 2011 | £90 | 93.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022 |
| 2010 | £58 | 98 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2020 |
| 2009 | £37 | 91.6 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017 |
| 2007 | £52 | 93 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019 |
Where to go next
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