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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 33 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MattMauldin on 9/28/2023: Elena Fucci tasting at Renegade Wines in Santa Barbara: From magnum. Deep dark-ruby color. Black cherry, leather, violet, clove, tea and black olive aromas and flavors, very aromatic. Refined and elegant on the palate with great expression. Intergrated and deep, with excellent tensiona and fine, firm tannins. WOTF. (1674 views) | | | Tasted by thwacker on 8/11/2023 & rated 92 points: Inky purple robe; Bouquet dark fruits and liquorice. On the palate, the wine has abundant tannins and acidity, flavors of blackberries and plums. The wine is fresh and youthful, surprisingly firm for a wine 16 years yound, but this is Aglianico after all. Probably opened too soon, but oh so good! (1528 views) | | | Tasted by Coachron13 on 7/18/2023 & rated 91 points: Big wine, opened early and then aerated into glass. Still early in its life. (1717 views) | | | Tasted by willschenk on 3/9/2023 & rated 91 points: This’ll be fantastic with time, but don’t bother right now. Barely budged with a 24hour decant. Serious, tightly-coiled fruit. Fennel, smoke, cured meats. Intensely tannic and backward. (2134 views) | | | Tasted by ppandian on 12/28/2022 & rated 90 points: Solid weight on the palate. Inky purple, ripe blackberries, and long finish. (2276 views) | | | Tasted by thwacker on 11/8/2022 & rated 94 points: A consummate wine of unbelievable depth and complexity, this wine at 5 years from harvest and production is just now showing its potential. It's tightly wound and burly with years/decades ahead of it. Give it some serious decant time to glimpse its ultimate potential. Bravo! (1925 views) | | | Tasted by ppandian on 11/5/2022 & rated 90 points: Tightly wound core and tannic out of the bottle. Day 2, after decanting, opens up beautifully. Dark, black fruit, inky, red berries and fine-grained tannins. (1689 views) | | | Tasted by brouigu1 on 9/23/2022 & rated 90 points: My first try of Aglianico and it was very enjoyable!
Not overly complex but nice red and dark fruit with an earthy side. A nice finish of light spice and leather. A good QPR wine IMO. (1765 views) | | | Tasted by a.fine.cabernet on 8/28/2022 & rated 91 points: Well-balanced, good texture - tannins are detectable but very nice and fine. Good fruit. There’s a nice pepper element, too. Not black pepper, though. More like white pepper. Paired well with eggplant parmigiana. (1629 views) | | | Tasted by thwacker on 7/15/2022 & rated 95 points: This is one of the best wines i've been able to enjoy in a long time. Deep red and a beautiful bouquet with more complexity than in can describe. unbelievably rich but alsp elegant (1678 views) | | | Tasted by Mattgraves81 on 2/4/2022 & rated 90 points: Heavy earth, soil driven taste. (2139 views) | | | Tasted by JJYoyo on 1/9/2022 & rated 92 points: 6 hr decant. For all Aglianico’s reputation as forbidding when young, 6 hrs in a decanter did a great job of mellowing this out. Note “mellowing out” does not mean easy or light….this is a formidable but elegant wine. “Dark cherry” does not do justice to the scent - the fruit of Hades’s personal cherry tree comes closer, mixed in with espresso, roast venison(?), burning wood. The taste had all of the above with flashes of fennel seed. The tannins are plentiful, unapologetic and are also very finely grained, giving the wine a gorgeous Turkish coffee feel I last experienced in 2016 Sassicaia. Acidity was a little lower than the bracing assault I expected. I am unfamiliar with aglianico so cannot really judge by taste how long this will last. But this was far more suave - with a lot of air - than I expected.
Score : 92-93. Relative to expectations: ++ (2516 views) | | | Tasted by Zitan on 11/5/2021: Dense and leathery - awkward at first but good after several hours of air - this has potential to be excellent but it’s too young - Aglianico backbone of a long lived Taurasi - this was the first of six and I will forget the others for 3-5 years - no rating at this time (2320 views) | | | Tasted by Bfinny00 on 10/23/2021 & rated 92 points: This wine is deep purple in hue. Its aromas include blackberry, black cherry, earth, and pepper. On the palate, it has medium acidity, medium body, dusty but well integrated tannins with no discernible bitterness. The finish is very nice, but not super long. Delicious wine that paired perfectly with lasagna. (2236 views) | | | Tasted by jrick on 9/3/2021 & rated 91 points: I never drink aglianico but this example reminded me of a mix of some of my absolute favourite grapes - sangiovese, Nebbiolo and syrah. Finding black cherry, maybe plum, iron, violet, a herbal spiciness, a dark stony minerality and just the slightest little hint of vanilla. Both a bit rustic and polished at once, very nice. Can’t tell how it will fare with age but testimonies on older vintages seem to say this should age well. (2292 views) | | | Tasted by HandmadeHomemade on 8/12/2021: Well made, polished tannic structure with a mineral-grippy finish. loads of black cherry, hot earth, and some oak to bring it together. nice wine (1971 views) | | | Tasted by Omar Khayyam on 12/27/2020 & rated 91 points: We opened this for Christmas dinner and it did really well - but it showed slightly less generous and opulent fruit this time around, and had more structure and dark materials. The Pesquera Gran Reserva 2009 outshone the Titolo by quite a bit. (2450 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 10/10/2020 & rated 91 points: Concentrated but surprisingly fresh. Deep and so young but also vibrant - really enjoyed this. Would love to see it in 10 years. (2430 views) | | | Tasted by VDLT Wine on 5/1/2020: Talk about the iron fist in a silk glove. A tannic, backward, powerhouse with remarkable polish. It has scintillating energy, great balance and bright fruit. Needs time to develop more charm. (2571 views) | | | Tasted by Omar Khayyam on 10/4/2019 & rated 94 points: Lovely nose, blue/dark berries, nice oaky style that is not in your face but adds warm Christmas spices; soft palate - quite similar to montevetrano in texture, with the difference that this is 100 % Aglianico as I understand it. This is felt at the end, where the tannic grip firms up and some licorice tea bitter notes add complexity without making the feel of the wine too rustic.
Absolutely modern (sweet fruit/new oak/not so low in alcohol) and absolutely a style of Aglianico that I like very much - where the sometimes overly dominating tannins are tamed and the fruit retained.
Drinks excellent already - the perfume is absolutely intoxicating - but a decant is useful, and lastly, this needs beef to deal with all the finely grained tannins. (3692 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Decanter, Slowine guide book 2020 presentation (10/12/2019)
(Elena Fucci, Titolo, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata, Italy, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
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(Elena Fucci Aglianico del Vulture Superiore Titolo, Red, Italy) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (8/17/2019)
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