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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Raizes on 2/6/2024 & rated 90 points: 李子、樱桃、香草、丁香、雪茄和些许的泥土气息，少许的强壮热感和轻飘飘的甜美感在口中略显分裂。拥有并不高挑但足够明亮的酸度，单宁成熟、丰富，未来质感可期。各种元素保持了中正的平衡，但眼下尚未能理出一条清晰的主线，因此显得个性比较平庸。 (2367 views) | | | Tasted by Odedis.Wine.reviews on 1/21/2023 & rated 92 points: Dark ruby in color with a wide reddish rim. This 7 year old is showing a great nose now.
Dry on the palate with medium plus acidity.
Showing red and black fruits with wood, earth, herbs, spices, wild flowers, chocolates, leather, tobacco leaf, dark coffee and black pepper.
This is a delicious, yet very young, Sangiovese from Chianti. Nicely balanced, powerful and tangy.
This 2016 vintage holds great promise for aging gracefully over the next two decades. However, at present, it has yet to fully reach its full potential. Would be nice to revisit it in 5 years.
Would have been nice to have it decanted for a few hours, but it wasn't my call. I had it blind, so it is what it is.
I paired it with a Charcuterie board of meats and cheeses.
100% Sangiovese grapes.
14% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$350. (4849 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 4/23/2022 & rated 95 points: Sangiovese study (Chicago, IL): Killer nose, and readily my favourite of the flight. Sweet, perfumed red fruit, with a slight herbal element as well, with an intensity that the 2017 just doesn't match at all. A bit cooler in stature than the ripe and flashy 2009, this is obviously very young, and in that stern tannic structure on the palate, this mirrors the 2017 quite a bit. But there's an added level of complexity and aromaticity to this wine that works brilliantly here. One for the ages, so they say. (6363 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 4/23/2022: 17/16/09. Whereas the 17 wasn't offering much pleasure, the 16 was a hedonistic delight. Of course not close to ready but so much joyful, plump fruit with refined edges already apparent. Primary but harmonious and lots of fun. Still going strong on night two. Better in a decade+ (5951 views) | | | Tasted by Tudz Drkl on 9/14/2021: Clear, ruby and medium intensity in the glass. Had a clean red fruit nose (at first pour a little prune as well) with some balsamic, a touch of clove and vanilla, stone dust and herbal notes. The mouth was well structured with grainy tannins throughout the palate, and a medium plus acidity. The length was significant. Very delicious wine. (7208 views) | | | Tasted by frenchiecagowine on 6/26/2021: No rating as it seems too early to assess how this wine will unfold. However, it seems extremely promising.
This was my first experience with Pergole Torte and it has not much in common with the other bottlings from this beloved house.
This wine is quite deep in color. The nose is rather muted and far from the floral notes I usually get in other wines from Montevertine. The palate is brooding, structured and with a modern sweetness to the fruit that is always immediately picked up by a fine though solid streak of acidity. It never feels heavy and is rather long.
Drank over 3 days, this wine didn't budge one bit, never felt altered and ever so slightly opened on day 2.
This is a haunting, mysterious wine that I can't wait to taste in 5, 10 and 15 years. I'm buying more. (6776 views) | | | Tasted by Hanibal on 4/30/2021 & rated 95 points: off the chart...alcohol is not prominent... this is still open but has a core of fruit that is so concentrated that it will afford the wine the time needed to become a real stunner I feel (6066 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 2/16/2021 & rated 93 points: 100% Sangiovese from a vineyard planted in 1968. Fermented and macerated with the skins for 25 days. Aged for 12 months in French oak barriques, and for another 12 months in large Slavonian oak casks. 14% alcohol. Tasted blind.
Brooding, very dark and only slightly translucent blackish-red color with a subtly maroon hue towards the rim. Brooding, somewhat sweet-toned and slightly glossy nose with aromas of sunny dark plums, wizened boysenberries and fresh black cherries, some toasty oak spice, a little bit of cassis, light raisiny tones, a sweet hint of pruney fruit and a perfumed touch of dried flowers. This feels like a modern, somewhat oak-driven Bordeaux, but with a more southern, Italian twist to it. The wine is dry, medium-to-moderately full-bodied and rather concentrated on the palate with intense flavors of ripe sour cherries and lingonberries, savory spices, some sweet dark fruits, a little bit of sweet, toasty oak spice, light leathery tones, a hint of extracted woody bitterness and a sunny touch of raisiny fruit. The wine is suggestive of sweetness, but the rather high acidity and quite assertive and moderately grippy tannins keep the overall feel rather savory and tightly-knit. The finish is moderately grippy and slightly warm with long, intense flavors of sweet dark fruits, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of tobacco, light toasty oak tones, a hint of wizened forest fruits and a touch of leather.
After two un-oaked varietal Sangioveses from Chianti, this wine felt relatively modern and glossy with its rather pronounced - yet judicious and not overdone - oak influence. However, this wine also felt very impressive with its remarkable intensity, sense of concentration and muscular structure. The overall feel was surprisingly rich and sunny with its high alcohol and slightly pruney edge to the brooding, dark-toned fruit - I would've expected more brightness and freshness from a 2016 Sangiovese. I guessed Toscana IGT, but I expected something with at least a little bit of Cab in the mix, from the understated nuances of Cassis - surprised to learn this was actually Le Pergole Torte, which is a varietal Sangiovese wine. Nevertheless, an impressive powerhouse of a Sangiovese. Despite its somewhat solar nature, I can imagine this will continue to improve wonderfully in a cellar for a great number of years - it is obvious this wine is built for the long haul. I heartily recommend letting the wine age long enough for the oakier tones to integrate better with the concentrated fruit. Great stuff, but nevertheless feels rather expensive for the quality at 119€. (5836 views) | | | Tasted by TheEngineer on 2/10/2021 & rated 97 points: Wow. 5 year check in and this is just as many would have known, infanticide (but from a purpose bought bottle just for this reason). I gave it a violent decant (yes shaking in the bottle for those that are in the trade who do the same thing and taught me how) given some notes that this thing is asleep below and glad I did. The first thing you notice is the dichotomies. Rich but not heavy, lots going on but great precision, structured but not overtly tannic. This is a very interesting wine, great levels of fruit but it never feels flabby. In fact, all thought the long finish, in your mind, you are thinking about the precision and structure of the wine and what else is no showing at this point in time. This thing should not be touched for years…. (5137 views) | | | Tasted by mmeyers1984 on 1/11/2021 & rated 85 points: Disappointing (3725 views) | | | Tasted by Costes76 on 11/27/2020 & rated 86 points: Quite disappointing given the high expectations. Properly decanted, muted albeit lush fragrance on nose with acidic and tannic rush on palate. Balance off. This needs to rest for many years. (4069 views) | | | Tasted by MarshallLi on 11/24/2020 & rated 93 points: Medium ruby,pronounced raspberry,red cherry,green bell pepper,tomato leaf,fennel,liquorice,wed stones,cloves,charred wood,smoke,chocolate,wet leaves,dry,high acidity,green high tannin,high alcohol,full body,long finish,very good wine,suitable for bottle ageing (3800 views) | | | Tasted by Justinalex on 10/20/2020 & rated 90 points: blind tasted with Sergio Zenato amarone 2013 & Carpineto CC Riserva 2015.
Didn't get the hype with this wine. Maybe it is in fact to young at this point but for $189 CAD it should be better then the $29 CAD Chianti.....which it wasn't. Ended up returning my case of 2016 pergola torte. (3942 views) | | | Tasted by wardamnwine on 9/5/2020 & rated 95 points: Way too young but give it 10 years and it will sing. (4211 views) | | | Tasted by nihraguk on 6/7/2020: I didn't like this. Too intense, fruit driven and primary. Putting it down to opening this too young. (4724 views) | | | Tasted by karl.1480 on 5/16/2020 & rated 95 points: Had at Trattoria la Strega and didn't take notes so this one goes right out of my memory.
Popped and poured and it starts out a bit muted but after some fifteen minutes in the glass it starts to get going. Great depth and very pure aromatics with dark cherry, rose petals, aromatic herbs, some dusty gravel road and a whiff of oak spice.
Smashing intensity to the fruit, silky texture and firm structure Surprisingly generous compared to their "lesser" wines but that is not a problem since it has structure to balance that out. Talking about a fist of steel in a velvet glove... The finish lingers for minutes with layers upon layers with ripe forest berries, herbs, turned soil, classy oak and lifted florals.
I get what some tasters before me pointed out - that this is more powerful and more fruit-driven wine compared to what this producer is famous for. But I think they make this work since the fruit is fresh and vibrant, the oak very integrated and there's enough structure to balance that generous fruit. This was nothing short but amazing and will most certainly only get better with time. (4702 views) | | | Tasted by rlove on 5/3/2020 & rated 90 points: Dark fruit and cedar. Quite ripe, and while one gets the sense this is overexteacted, the palate does favorably show an appealing lightness, with soft, fine tannins. Finishes hot. What baffles me most is that the straight Montevertine is beautiful in 2016, with beguiling aromatics and a great vibrancy, nothing like this showing. (4796 views) | | | Tasted by winequant on 3/14/2020 & rated 95 points: I totally disagree with EnglishmansClaret’s categorization of the wine. I am very much an old world wine drinker and by no means into high octane Tuscan wines. Pergole Torte is one of the handful of Tuscan wines I actually buy. But this was really awesome. Huge wine for sure, but no way was it hot or “sweet”. It certainly had ferocious tannins, and there’s certainly a lot of fruit, but there is an elegance underneath, and definetely a good amount of acid. I think this will be incredible in about 20 years. (4708 views) | | | Tasted by brasstab on 12/30/2019 & rated 94 points: A stunner. Bright and big and lush and bold and everything in between. Paired with amazing homemade lasagna whilst prepping the house for a big NYE bash. (1589 views) | | | Tasted by bartgab on 11/30/2019 & rated 92 points: Giovane ma con grande potenziale. Molto piacevole e a tutto pasto. (5002 views) | | | Tasted by englishman's claret on 7/9/2019 & rated 86 points: Yikes - really overblown stuff; blackberry, licorice, cocoa. Hot and aggressive. Similar palate. Tiring to drink. (5900 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2016 Chianti Classico – A Modern Day Benchmark (Aug 2019) (8/1/2019)
(Montevertine Le Pergole Torte Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Michaela Morris
Decanter, Top 10 fine wines of the year, Michaela (2/9/2019)
(Montevertine, Le Pergole Torte, Toscana, Tuscany, Italy, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Chianti Classico 2015 & 2016: Right Place, Right Time (Feb 2019) (2/1/2019)
(Montevertine Le Pergole Torte Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Chianti Classico: The Stellar 2015s and Surprising 2014s (Jan 2018) (1/18/2018)
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| SangioveseSANGIOVESE: (Pronounced "sahn-joh-vhe-se").
Sangiovese - Italy's claim to fame, the pride of Tuscany. Traditionally made, the wines are full of cherry fruit, earth, and cedar. It produces Chianti (Classico), Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello di Montalcino, Rosso di Montepulciano, Montefalco Rosso, and many others. Sangiovese is also the backbone in many of the acclaimed, modern-styled "Super-Tuscans", where it is blended with Bordeaux varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc) and typically aged in French oak barrels, resulting a wine primed for the international market in the style of a typical California cabernet: oaky, high-alcohol, and a ripe, jammy, fruit-forward profile.[16]
Semi-classic grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy. Used to produce the Chianti and other Tuscan red wines. Has many clonal versions, two of which seem to predominate. The Sangiovese Grosso clone Brunello variety is used for the dark red, traditionally powerful and slow-maturing "Brunello di Montalcino" wine. The other is the Sangiovese Piccolo, also known under the historical synonym name Sangioveto, used for standard Chianti Classico DOC wines. Old vine derived wine is often used in the better versions, needing several years ageing to reach peak. A third clone, Morellino, is used in a popular wine blend with the same name found in the southern part of the province. Recent efforts in California with clones of this variety are very promising, producing medium-bodied reds with rich cherry or plumlike flavors and aromas. Among the available clonal versions are R6 and R7, derived from the Montalcino region of Italy, having average productivity/ripening and producing small berries on medium size clusters. R10 and R24 are well-recommended. R23, listed as deriving from the Emilia-Romagna region, has good vigor with medium-small clusters with earlier ripening. R102 derives from the Montepulciano region and reported to have average vigor with moderate productivity that results in higher sugar levels and good acidity from medium-small berries on medium-small clusters. Has synonym name of Nielluccio where grown in Corsica.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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