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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.8 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 233 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Guido L. on 11/5/2023: The wine was corked. Just a slight hint in the nose at the beginning that became very present over 4 hours in the decanter. However, on the palate it was not that bad, just slightly. The potential of the wine is still great and would be again on a 95 pts level, if the there would not have been the cork. (1084 views) | | | Tasted by wineguru57@yahoo.com.au on 9/29/2023 & rated 93 points: not unlike a left bank Bordeaux of similar age. Colour showing some age, orange rim, nose , very complex, leather, mocha, rich, complex, and tannins still gripping. Balance is great, even tannins are still assertive . Lovely wine (975 views) | | | Tasted by Geaux Tigers on 8/23/2023 & rated 92 points: Napa 2023 - The Sequel; 8/23/2023-8/28/2023: PnP with early moldy funk that took 15 min to blow off. Mushrooms, oysters, saddle leather, dried tobacco, dried red cherry. Good for what it was, glad I had a chance to try. Not familiar with the aging curve on these but seems past peak for my palate. (1679 views) | | | Tasted by kevinpatrick on 5/2/2023: Return to Italy: Pio Cesare, Gaja, Oddero, Tignanello and more (Flour Shop, Charlotte, NC) (Charlotte, NC): Slow-ox for 3 hours before serving. Complex nose of young dried cherries, leather, and tobacco. A wine displaying high quality tones and brimming with confidence. Notes of dried cherries and lightly smoked meat on the pallet. A wine with both power and finesse. Richly flavored and demonstrating great depth resolving into a long finish to red and black fruits. My wine of the flight. 3rd place for Wine of the Night. (1857 views) | | | Tasted by Radders12345 on 3/3/2023 & rated 93 points: Joel's Tuscan Lunch (The wilds of Kent): Just a hint of browning in the glass
The nose has a surprising fresh herbal note with lifted dried cherry and plum. Surprising intensity in the glass - really sapid and delicious. The bright red cherry element speaks of Tuscany. Lovely stuff (2045 views) | | | Tasted by fussyeater on 3/3/2023 & rated 93 points: Tuscan Lunch chez Joel (Kent countryside, UK): Forest floor and sweet red fruits on the nose with some musty library books. There are bright acids, freshness and very good balance with succulent red fruits and persistence. Loved the style and was a treat to drink a Tig with bottle age. (1415 views) | | | Tasted by Vinnut on 3/1/2023 & rated 93 points: Medium reddish garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Full forward & fragrant nose of ripe fruit aromas of cherries, blueberries & plums with overtones of floral notes of roses & earthy/dusty notes, cocoa/coffee, spices, tobacco, leather, iron, herbs, minerals & a hint of cedar in the background. Medium bodied with a good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, developed, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, cranberries & plums with earthy notes, mushrooms, chocolate, coffee, spices & minerals. Lingering smooth & supple finish. Drinks quite well at present & at 24 years of age it is close to or at its peak of development. I doubt any further development would occur from additional aging. Fill was at lower neck; cork stained 1/4 but intact. (1185 views) | | | Tasted by Milos on 7/14/2022 & rated 92 points: This was a part of 1997 and 1999 Tuscan tasting including 3 Brunellos and 2 Super Tuscans, same producers from each year. Leather, dried cherries, tobacco, forest floor. Well structures palate with very fine tannins, well integrated. Good acidity to provide structure. Also time to drink up, but no rush. (2579 views) | | | Tasted by Eric on 6/17/2022 & rated 95 points: Utterly stellar. Purchased on release from a local retailer and stored for 20 years. Cork was perfect. Explosive nose with incredible secondary notes of balsa and sandalwood, textbook Sangiovese, but some tobacco and stern iron as well. Mmm, what a palate, deep currant, iron, blood, yet a lifted cranberry and red fruit note from the Sangiovese. (2352 views) | | | Tasted by madvulture on 6/5/2022 & rated 93 points: Really nice, but beginning to fade a bit - drink now. (1772 views) | | | Tasted by Ernestas on 1/30/2022 & rated 93 points: As since 1982 the grape composition is fixed 80% Sangiovese, 15% CS and 5% CF. Great opportunity to taste 2 bottles of ‘99 side by side. Intense complex aroma of leather, barnyard, dried cherries, dried tomatoes, meat, sweet tobacco, tar, underbrush. Medium body, broad flavour profile of dry berries, smokey and spiced hints, medicinal balsamic touches, delicate texture, well integrated acidity, structured fine tannins. On a verge of passing its peak, so drink up. (2356 views) | | | Tasted by Nbkat8 on 12/24/2021 & rated 96 points: Simply the best. (2309 views) | | | Tasted by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on 7/30/2021 & rated 90 points: Hmm. Difficult to judge. Drinking well (?) for the vintage and age, but I expected Better for some reason. Chalk it up to inexperience with old Italian wines. (2325 views) | | | Tasted by vinhonotte on 8/1/2020 & rated 93 points: Deep ruby, and still pretty homogeneous despite age. Pronounced nose with rose, violets, bell peppers, and paprika. Still some bright acids while tannins quite rounded, and a classic blackberry, sour cherry, and grassy hit, and later exhibits peppery, paprika, and clove nuances. Quite a long, tar-dominated finish. Nice! (3781 views) | | | Tasted by Kepos on 7/28/2020 & rated 94 points: Dark berries, some musk, earthy, very round and elegant, acidity. long finish, really good (3316 views) | | | Tasted by DMET on 7/18/2020 & rated 99 points: truly an iconic wine. it’s my last of the case i bout what’s ago.
still great tannins and beautiful noise...
will miss this one, but will never forgot. (3073 views) | | | Tasted by mfriedman12 on 1/19/2020 & rated 90 points: No fading on the color. Only nose. Lots of Ramona. Bold plums and lavender. Strong finish. Decanted two and a half hours. (3782 views) | | | Tasted by hajoha on 1/13/2020 & rated 92 points: Tignanello 1999.
Perfekt moden nå med søtlig tobakk, lær og krydder.
Silkemyk og sømløs i munn - elegant.
Nesten helt pulveriserte tanniner, men likevel med et lite bitt.
Pen lengde på ettersmaken.
Nydelig. 92p (3282 views) | | | Tasted by SadEdjo on 11/23/2019 & rated 91 points: Very smooth. Dark fruit. Long finish. Sniff tannins. Drink up (2392 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 10/7/2019 & rated 93 points: Weekly tasting group RWP #347; 1999 (@ BS): Complex bouquet with dark berries, leather, earth and rustic flavors as well as some chocolate. On the palate red and dark berries, autumn forest, beautiful acidity, soft acidity and a great length. Completely ready for drinking with still a lovely bite. Great wine. (2791 views) | | | Tasted by ElCarretil10 on 10/7/2019 & rated 93 points: Nose intense, earthy, darkfruit, cherries, rich, smooth, well balanced, still young and vivid. Top. (2454 views) | | | Tasted by mhudes on 8/25/2019 & rated 92 points: At Lalimes in Berkeley. Served blind to Walter Michael and Charles along side the 2001 version of this. 3 hour decant for both bottles. Maroonish red in color. Floral cedar nose. Dark fruit in the mouth particularly dark cherries and blackberries. A touch of acidity with complexity on the finish. Likely to be in a 3 year peak period, but should last a few years after that. Most guesses were Bordeaux or California Cab, but I believe Walter said Super Tuscan right before the unveiling. Well done snd an excellent wine. (1875 views) | | | Tasted by mike410 on 2/20/2019 & rated 92 points: Good color with no bricking whatsoever. Full bodied and tannins are still at the forefront. A touch sweet which I like. I would say the peak of this wine is in about 3 years. Medium finish. (2476 views) | | | Tasted by MikeATL on 2/13/2019 & rated 91 points: Still surprisingly young but showing good intensity of dark fruit with a little Tuscan dust, (2405 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 2/3/2019 & rated 89 points: Good Wine with a Boring Super Bowl (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Mature black fruit with woodsy spice and tobacco. Tannins still a little more firm than I'd prefer. (3268 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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The Antinori family has produced wine since 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the Florentine Winemakers Guild. Throughout its long history (across 26 generations) the family has always managed winemaking in person. Today, the company is managed by Marquis Piero Antinori. The company has dedicated great efforts to improving the quality of its wines, through careful planning of investments and research programs embracing all production aspects. The success of these programs has enabled the company to produce a superb range of quality wines from its various estates in Tuscany and Umbria. The Tignanello Estate is home to the famous Tignanello and Solaia vineyards. Located between the Greve and Pesa Valleys, in the heart of the Chianti Classic area, 30 kilometers south of Florence, Tignanello boasts 350 hectares of land with 147 hectares of vines. The vineyards are divided into small, individual areas over an area of 47 hectares at Tignanello, facing South-West, and the neighboring 10 hectares at Solaia, both with Cabernet and Sangiovese grapes that benefit from specific exposure and micro-climate.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.TignanelloThe original Super-Tuscan, Tignanello is produced exclusively from the Tignanello vineyard, a 47 hectares (116 acres) southwest-facing, calcareous rocky-marl and limestone soil plot with tufaceous elements, planted between 1,150 and 1,312 feet above sea level at Antinori's Santa Cristina Estate. It was the first Sangiovese to be aged in small oak barrels, the first red wine in modern times to use a non-traditional grape variety, Cabernet, in the blend, and among the first red wines made in Chianti with no white grapes. In all three instances, it set the example for a new breed of exceptional top-of-the-line Italian wine. Tignanello, originally a Chianti Classico Riserva labeled Vigneto Tignanello, was first vinified as a single vineyard wine in the 1970 vintage, when it contained 20% Canaiolo and 5% Trebbiano and Malvasia, and was aged in small oak cooperage. With the 1971 vintage the wine became a Vino da Tavola della Toscana and was named Tignanello after the vineyard from which it originates. Beginning with this vintage, Tignanello stopped adhering to the rules laid down by Chianti Classico Disciplinare, and with the 1975 vintage, white grapes were totally eliminated. Since the 1982 vintage, the blend has been 80% Sangiovese, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. Tignanello was not produced in the 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1984 and 1992 vintages.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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