La Rasina Brunello 2001

This La Rasina (thanks Robert!) showed slightly hot (probably because of its relative youth versus the dozen-or-so older wines we'd tasted before it).   The wine showed all the component parts it needs to have a long life:  ripe (or slightly underripe) fruit & balance between fruit, acid, and oak.    This wine is big, and at the 9-year-mark in its life it is showing far more oak than the older brunellos we'd tried -- and this type of sine-curve integration of oak and fruit will leave it favoring one or the other while it is maturing.   This wine is in an "oak" phase of its maturation.  $62; 90+ points