Community Tasting Note

• pmarlo Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 23, 2024 - First day closed and astringent and wasn't giving much more than that. with glass time it gradually displayed limited fruit. Second day it was much better. Softer wine that other CT reviewers described as austere. Agreeable and not flabby as it was not past prime or in decline. Feminine might be the best way to describe this perhaps. Acidity was in a very sweet spot for me; enough to give wine a nice drive but not over the top. Today tannins present and they are not astringent. Very nice with food and meats and cheeses. The last glass or two threw sediment which required the fine screen of a Vinturi aerator.
  I think this wine is in its drinking window. I've had aged chianti before and I expected it to be similar due to the sangiovese grape. It was not. This had a lightness on its feet aspect, an active in the mouth feel without a brutal acid dominance. I feel that this is a mature wine, that it may possibly still be evolving, and there is no way to know if the fruit has really faded or is just hiding. I would have it now, especially if you have other bottles to age.

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