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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.9 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Lars1974 on 1/7/2024 & rated 93 points: Has improved since last time, 3 hours decant before drinking.
A sunny Bordeaux blend when it's done well.
Drink now or cellar for upp to another decade (398 views) | | | Tasted by The DEO on 10/14/2023 & rated 95 points: Fantastic. Well cellared and drinking very well at this point. Agree with other posts that this still has a lot of life, but it is certainly within the window. Drink and enjoy! Life isn’t about a taste-off; grill up something you like and enjoy this wine…..it’s what the maker intended! (492 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 4/4/2023: Nose - figs and balsamic. Tomato. Deep
Mouth - rich and ripe, good sap, fruit bombish and despite 12 yrs in bottle this hasn’t developed much complexity. young. hold. (872 views) | | | Tasted by merlotsmile on 8/27/2021 & rated 91 points: Stor inbjudande doft av mörka körsbär, rostade toner, kryddor, örter
Fräsch, sältig touch. Lite bett i tanninerna, härlig energi, långt avslut med lite bitterhet. 70% Cab Sav, 30% Sangiovese (1567 views) | | | Tasted by longfisher on 6/11/2020 & rated 95 points: Fortunate to try this at the winery in 2018. Wish I had brought more home! Opened this weekend at friends with a wild boar ragu and oh my. This is a lovely super Tuscan. Just outstanding. Well made and really on point. What oak there is compliments and it's so clear this is Tuscan. But head to head with a really great Napa cab, this wine was the clear choice. (2395 views) | | | Tasted by Lars1974 on 5/2/2020 & rated 91 points: Really liked this one although... it's a very good wine but lacks something to make it a great wine and with its price it just have to much competition. (2064 views) | | | Tasted by Jason W G on 2/16/2019 & rated 93 points: Very impressed, glad i have 5 more. Drinking well. (2020 views) | | | Tasted by dclaggett on 4/14/2018 & rated 95 points: Very classy wine, accessible now with short decant, layers and layers of flavor after each sip, dark plum color, huge fruit driven nose, long savory lingering finish. Great with Italian food, as should be. (3330 views) | | | Tasted by Lyubomir Lefterov on 4/4/2018 & rated 95 points: Wow, it is bursting with bold CS flavors, so powerful and multilayered, while retaining grace and elegance. Juicy, utterly delicious, rounded, tannins solid but accessible, a real masterpiece. (2457 views) | | | Tasted by farinas on 3/6/2017 & rated 94 points: Great Wines of Italy with James Suckling (Moore Building, Miami, FL): This is a superb Supertuscan, with exotic bouquet of flowers, herbs and dark fruits. The body is well balanced between acid and flesh. Excellent wine, possible one of the best of the night (2773 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 11/9/2016 & rated 93 points: 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Sangiovese. Dark fruit on the nose, spicy, mineral, rich and generous. Very good lift and balance on the palate, despite the concentration and alcohol. Very layered and fine. Persistent finish. 92-93+ (2440 views) | | | Tasted by Wineguy76 on 2/29/2016 & rated 94 points: Unsurprisingly, the 2011 Camartina is yet another superb production by the Querciabella estate. Offering a sexy and opaque ruby core the wine comes endowed with explosive perfumes of fresh roses, wild raspberries and graphite. Full bodied with serious concentration and impressive depth, this young beauty indulges the palate with intense flavours of caramel, fresh anisette and a rich raspberry coulis, as well as a long finish marked by an abundance of irresistibly silky, well polished tannins. This remarkable effort offers tremendous aging potential. Forget it in the cellar for two more years and enjoy it over the next fifteen. (2483 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Producer Location - Maremma (Google Maps)SuperTuscan BlendSuperTuscan Blend refers to wines which feature a significant Sangiovese component combined with grapes not traditionally associated with Italy like Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon. This separates it from "Sangiovese blend" which is used for wines which are predominantly Sangiovese and combined with traditional Italian varieties. There is often confusion as many wines most famous associated with the term "Super Tuscan" like Sassicaia, Masseto and Ornellaia have no Sangiovese and are properly linked to 'Red Bordeaux Blend.'
In fact, Super Tuscan was a term coined to refer specifically to wines such as Sassicaia and Tignanello. These were wines that "fell out" of the official DOCG classification of Italian wines because they either contained grapes not permitted (international varietals such as cabernet sauvignon or merlot,) were aged differently (I.e. in barrique) or were 100% sangiovese - which was not permitted at the time for Chianti (E.g. Fontodi Flaccianello.) Forced to be classified as simply "Vina di Tavola" these wines nontheless quickly found favour in international markets and comanded prices above the highest quality DOCG Chianti Classico & Brunello di Montalcino wines at the time. The wine industry and press began to refer to these wines as SuperTuscans because of their popularity and quality, but also because of the prices they commanded. Subsequently, the Italian authorities, under the Goria Law 1992, redrew the classifications, and included the category IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) to classify the SuperTuscans.Italy Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorTuscany Tuscany (ItalianMade.com) | TuscanytToscana IGTHere is the Wikipedia entry for Toscana wine. |
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