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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2015 (based on 91 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.5 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by kanjimoti on 2/7/2012 & rated 92 points: Absolutely beautiful and still going strong with aromas of dark cherries, flowers, and earth. On the nose this shows very little oxidation with surprising, merlotish weight in the mouth if you will. I'd love to have the opportunity to try this again but I think that'll prove nearly impossible. Drink by summer, 2013. (5081 views) | | | Tasted by ylkim30 on 2/14/2011: Really excellent. Gorgeous perfume. High toned, red fruit on the palate with ripping acidity. Delicious right now but can see aging and improving. Looking forward to trying my other bottles over the next several years. (5821 views) | | | Tasted by mkaminski on 4/6/2010 & rated 85 points: Light ruby colour with delicate copper reflexes. At first animal aromas, scents of leather, mineral and volcanic aromas of petrol and blacktop. Aromas of cherries and red berries open with time. On the palate light, fresh, with reduced fruit and moderate acidity and tannins. Short. (5496 views) | | | Tasted by kenthargis on 2/2/2010 & rated 92 points: Very tasty. Medium bodies, smooth, luscious notes of cherry, good acidity. Went very well with yellowfin tuna encrusted in fennel seed and coriander over a bed of greens and potatoes. (6038 views) | | | Tasted by wynnewood500 on 12/7/2009: Light to medium bodied with with a translucent red color. Nothing special but easy to drink. (5678 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 10/14/2009 & rated 92 points: Wine & Spirits Top 100 Tasting (Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center, SF, CA): Deep plum, dried black fruit nose; tart plum, dried berry, orange palate; medium-plus finish (3689 views) | | | Tasted by Aloysius16 on 10/1/2009 & rated 88 points: Nice but a little disappointing in view of very positive reports. A little touch of earth and iron beneath the light sweet fruit but nothing thrilling here. (2076 views) | | | Tasted by moods on 7/6/2009 & rated 85 points: Wine Education Service Sicily & Sardinia Tasting (LSE, London): Bright ruby colour. Vegetal aroma dominates, cabbage in particular. Some salty bacon notes and black olives. Soft, fleshy almost soupy palate. Fruit comes back on the bitter finish. Unusual and opens up with time in the glass, losing much of the vegetal character. (2644 views) | | | Tasted by tendring on 7/6/2009 & rated 82 points: Wine Education Service - Sicily and Sardinia (LSE): Just opaque with a bit of age.
Fishy shells, salt and lots of vegetal notes.
Fishy but fruity as well, not what you expect from a wine, needs big food, interesting, intriguing but not my taste. (2170 views) | | | Tasted by alion on 5/31/2009 & rated 88 points: Full, rich, smooth - dark chocolate, leather, a little red fruit. V. good. (2206 views) | | | Tasted by ricard on 3/3/2009 & rated 92 points: 60% Nero d'Avola, 40% Frappato di Vittoria, 13% ABV I was persuaded by my chatty and enthusiastic local Philglas & Swiggot man to buy this unusual Sicilian red wine with a strange fat bottle, not cheap at around £17.00, but which turned out to be an excellent recommendation. I was looking for something Italian, exciting and different. I'm trying to expand my knowledge of the bewildering array of native Italian varieties. You would have thought that being from Sicily, which has a hot, dry climate, that we'd be looking at a wine with high extraction, high alcohol, intense stewed fruit aromas and abrasive tannins, but actually it's more like a Burgundy - soft, light, gorgeously aromatic with a fresh, vivid, minerally finish. This is a very surprising and interesting find. It looks unusual, to start with - the bottle is short and plump - and the label is austere. The ABV is only 13%, which is rare for a Mediterranean wine nowadays. The colour is a light, garnet red, and the wine exudes a gentle perfume of smoked bacon, tobacco and toasty oak, followed by a very balanced, impeccably structured mouthfeel with both savoury and sweet sensations - grilled meats, blackberries - and a very pleasant, impressive, elegant, tightly wound, mineral finish. Tim Atkin recently wrote that Sicily was making great wines - this is definitely proof of that. (1832 views) |
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JancisRobinson.com (3/11/2011)
(COS, Classico Cerasuolo di Vittoria Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Gary Walsh
The WINEFRONT (6/13/2009)
(Azienda Agricola COS – Cerasuolo di Vittoria) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Central & Southern Italy: A World Waiting to be Discovered (Apr 2009)
(Cos Cerasuolo Di Vittoria Classico) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (10/14/2009)
(COS Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico) Deep plum, dried black fruit nose; tart plum, dried berry, orange palate; medium-plus finish 92 points |
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