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| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2026 (based on 3 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.5 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by AllRed on 4/6/2023 & rated 92 points: Courtesy of PP. Deep color. Black currants, plum, cedar, saddle leather and tobacco. I’m smitten. Medium-bodied, with firm tannins and flavors of plum, pepper, green tobacco, barrel spice and black fruit. Excellent now and will improve with age. Potential 93/94+. (393 views) | | | Tasted by Ernestas on 10/28/2021 & rated 83 points: Medium+ ruby colour. Medium intensity aroma of cassis, blackcurrants, earth, toast, oak and tar hints. Medium body, fruit driven style with round and approachable texture, black fruit flavours with hints of toast and chocolate, youthful grained chewy tannins, medium length finish. (747 views) |
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Casa Brancaia was founded in 1981 by the Swiss couple Brigitte and Bruno Widmer. It is located in the heart of the Chianti Classico region. The vineyard experienced a quasi vertical takeoff, as it already won with the 1983 vintage won first place at a major Chianti Classico tasting. This rapid success is the friendship with the Mazzei family, owners of the famous Castello di Fonterutoli owe. In their cellar, the wines of Casa Brancaia were pressed up to the 1997 vintage and expanded. Since 1998, the wines in their own, vinified using the most modern principles built cellar. The management of the property taken over in 1999 the daughter of Barbara Kronenberg-Widmer and her husband Martin Kronenberg. They are supported by star winemaker Dr. Carlo Ferrini. La Brancaia is already one of the flagship company of Tuscany and receives for its wines every year national and international awards. Brancaia Casa also has a winery in Maremma. From there comes the Ilatraia. Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorTuscany Tuscany (ItalianMade.com) | TuscanytMaremma On weinlagen-infoMaremma Toscana On weinlagen-info |
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