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Argiano of Montalcino – 2001 back to 1981

See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes.

This week and next I’ll be publishing notes taken on a series of (often incomplete) verticals of top quality Italian wines at a big tasting held earlier this year to celebrate the tenth anniversary of one of London’s most successful and energetic wine importers Liberty Wines, set up by the super-affable David Gleave MW and his wife Luciann Flynn in March 1997.
 
The wines were set out in an upper room of the Intercontinental Hotel at Hyde Park Corner with unusually warm sunshine bursting through the room’s...