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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.1 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 23 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Super zio on 9/30/2023 & rated 80 points: 산미가 강했고 너무 안열림.... (182 views) | | | Tasted by Lord Marc on 3/31/2023 & rated 89 points: My firs Masi Oreo, it was full bodied and medium tannins. I found it well balance with the fruit but also well aged. I recommend for a restaurant buy and will try again. (359 views) | | | Tasted by astifors on 5/16/2020 & rated 88 points: A medium body wine. You can identify remaines of tannins in the background which now is no longer dominant. Cherries transformed into a more complex palett and soft mature wine. Perfect for light dishes with pork, pasta etc. (1733 views) | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 5/5/2020 & rated 85 points: This is a very big wine with a grip of tannins at the finish. It is a bit over extracted but that is the nature of this wine. Not my kind of taste profile. I will wait a few years to see how it fleshes out. (1591 views) | | | Tasted by MichelNL on 9/8/2019: In de neus pruim, leer, tabak. In de mond mooi vol kersig. Een heerlijk glas vol van het mooie Italiaanse leven. Fijn strak zuurtje achterin de mond. Ik mis wel een rafelig randje, het is wat gladjes. (783 views) | | | Tasted by tomoem on 9/26/2018 & rated 88 points: Gary's / Kobrand icons of Italian wines event
Hard to hate wine but also hard to love. I liked it but the wine is definitely the style of wine built to appeal to the crowd. This wine does not fail in that regard despite an unbalanced tannin and fruit on the palette. Short finish. (2509 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 2/17/2018 & rated 80 points: 14% alcohol, 2 g/l residual sugar, 5,7 g/l acidity. Tasted blind in VV.
Quite deep and dark black cherry color with only a little translucency. Sweet, extracted and stylistically very new world-ish nose with almost cloying aromas of jammy boysenberries, overripe blackberries, cherry marmalade, some toasty oak spice and a hint of mocha. The wine is dense, medium-bodied and quite structured on the palate with ripe yet surprisingly tough primary fruit flavors of boysenberries, borderline overripe blackberries, some sweet black cherries, a little bit of tobacco and a hint of sweet, brooding oak spice. Both the high acidity and firm, grippy tannins contribute to the structure noticeably. The finish feels quite hot and somewhat sweet with jammy dark berries, some cherry marmalade and a hint of toasty oak spice. The tannins lend a noticeably grippy, mouthdrying touch to the aftertaste.
Ehh, nope. The wine is impressively structured all right, but the jammy, borderline overripe and too new-world-ish aromas and flavors make the wine taste just too much of a crowdpleaser to my taste. The tightly-knit structure might help the wine to survive and develop in a cellar, so it is possible that with enough age this might turn out to be an impressive wine. However, based on how it tastes like now, I really wouldn't like to gamble. Priced according to its quality at 19,90€, but it just feels like this wine wasn't made to suit my taste. (2486 views) | | | Tasted by westopherguy on 12/29/2017 & rated 85 points: Nice Veronese IGT. Drinkable; wouldn’t go out of my way to have it again, however. (2593 views) | | | Tasted by legarejm on 12/27/2017 & rated 89 points: Nice cedar, cherries, spices and tobacco notes. Good strong tannins well balanced with refreshing acidity. Medium-long finish. Potential to improve over a few years. (1839 views) | | | Tasted by oldwines on 9/21/2017 & rated 90 points: Tasted at a Kobrand event in NYC. This wine is a dark garnet color with a good bit of texture and an attractive though not effusive nose. The palate has plum, sweet cherry, strawberry, chocolate, blackberry, licorice and some baking spice with bright acidity but fairly sharp but not too grippy tannins. I think this will improve with a few more years in bottle and seems like a pretty good QPR to me. Probably will rate a couple points higher in time. (2365 views) | | | Tasted by NickBurwood on 9/2/2017 & rated 88 points: The Anchor, Ripley for wife's birthday dinner with the family.
Dark, good body with classic and concentrated Valpol style fruit displaying some bitter cherry character and savoury spice. Touch of youthful alcohol heat and firm core acidity.
2 bottles enjoyed by all but undoubtedly would benefit from another year or two in bottle and possibly hit the excellent 90pt level. 88+?+ (1484 views) | | | Tasted by Sergei&Marisa on 7/15/2017 & rated 87 points: Max 3/4/7/6
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| Masi Producer websiteCorvina BlendPrimarily Corvina and Corvinone (45% to 95%), and Rondinella (5 to 30%). Sometimes includes Molinara, Oseleta, Negrara, Pelara, Spigamonti, etc, and, in small quantity, international red grapes allowed in the Valpolicella region.Italy Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorVeneto Credit to WineCountry.it for this article
History and Tradition
The first human settlements of the lagoon and the surrounding areas maintained a simple social structure until the arrival of the Romans in the second century B.C. who divided the land into parcels of about 4,800 square meters and distributed those tracts among the locals to be cultivated.
The Romans founded the cities of Verona, Vicenza, and Padova, and named what was then the 10th imperial region, Venetia. Both the Veneto region and the province of Venice (Venezia in Italian) derive their names from the original Latin name of the area. The precursor of the city of Venice that we know today was founded during the Middle Ages when the locals escaped the barbaric invasions that followed the decline of the Roman Empire by taking refuge in coastal areas, islands, and the lagoon’s marshland.
The Venetian trade routes that connected Europe with Asia brought great wealth and general prosperity to the region. In many provinces, especially around Treviso, mulberry cultivation and the breeding of silkworms imported from China brought more affluence and prestige to local residents. With money pouring in from all quarters, Venice began its great building projects, chief among them creating the lagoon and canal infrastructure and systems still enjoyed and used today.
Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th centuries following the opening of the Suez Canal, Venice once again became an important port city. Foreign investment financed the creation of the industrial infrastructure of Porto Marghera and freed the port of Venice from the burden of commercial navigation. Improved communications technology has allowed the rest of Italy and the world beyond closer ties to Venice, and has contributed to making Venice into an incomparable tourist destination.
The long period of power and splendor that blessed Venice encouraged the highest quality creations by local artisans. The ongoing request for jewelry, precious fabrics, lace, glass, wood and ceramic products by the noble Venetians shaped the development of typical stores along the narrow calli (streets) of Venice as well as factories both inland and on the lagoon islands. Up to today, popular tourist destinations are the Murano and Burano islands, famed for their glasswork and needlepoint products.
The Wines
Veneto is among the foremost wine-producing regions, both for quality and quantity. The region counts over 20 DOC zones and a variety of sub-categories, many of its wines, both dry and Spumanti, are internationally known and appreciated.
The three most well known DOCs are Bardolino, from the town with the same name and surrounding the shores of Garda Lake, Valpolicella, and Soave. Other noteworthy wines produced here are the white Bianco di Custoza, the excellent sparkling Prosecco, the Breganze, and the Amarone (a rich and powerful red from the Verona province). If you travel to the Treviso area, look for the little-known Clinton, a wine that is banned from distribution because it does not conform to the DOC standards, but is produced in limited quantities for local consumption.
The importance of winemaking in this region is underscored by the creation in 1885 of the very first Italian school for vine growing and oenology. In addition, Veneto was the first region to constitute the first strada del vino or "wine road". This first wine-touring road featured special road signs providing information on vines and the wines they were made into and joined the Valdobbiadene and Conegliano DOC zones crossing a series of hilly vineyards.
The most appreciated wines in the region come from the provinces of Treviso, Verona, Padova, Venice, and Vicenza. The area around Verona, with its temperate climate and hilly surrounding, is believed to have cultivated grapes since the Bronze Age. |
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