96 Robert Parker
The multi-faceted 1998 Sori San Lorenzo offers up notes of lead pencil, smoke, tobacco, tar, rose petals, black fruits, and espresso. Already incredibly expressive, soft, sexy, and voluptuous, jammy fruits infused with toasty oak cascade over the palate. This easily understood, seamless, pure, classic 1998 should drink well for 20-25 years.
95 Wine Spectator
Superrich and decadent, with wild berry, earth, meat and porcini. Full-bodied, with licorice and blackberry flavors, and an underlying minerality. Long and powerful. Fantastic wine. Has a long life ahead of it. Always a classic.--1998 Piedmont blind retrospective (2008). Drink now. 970 cases made. ?JS
The multi-faceted 1998 Sori San Lorenzo offers up notes of lead pencil, smoke, tobacco, tar, rose petals, black fruits, and espresso. Already incredibly expressive, soft, sexy, and voluptuous, jammy fruits infused with toasty oak cascade over the palate. This easily understood, seamless, pure, classic 1998 should drink well for 20-25 years.