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• _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 90 points

  October 8, 2020 - One of the true, original super tuscans, seeking to recreate bordeaux blends from Italian terroir and climates.
  
  This was served blind, and was a total dead ringer for bordeaux. Everyone around the table could identify it as a Cabernet dominate wine, but nobody could pick this as Italian.
  
  At 12.5%, this was as classic as it gets, and I guessed it as 1986 Chateau Latour 🤷🏻‍♂️. Pencil. Leather. Cigar. Wood. Some green pepper.
  
  From what I understand, 1989 was a very cold year by Italian standards, so it probably was the equivalent of a 'normal' one in bordeaux.
  
  Just a total delight, and WORLDs apart from the absurd, and over the top, highly alcoholic fruit bombs being produced now in the super tuscan region. From ST

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• SARED wrote: 95 points

  February 24, 2020 - 30 min after pnp the mustiness blew off and revealed a beatiful red fruited, soft elegant wine with gentle tannin. Not sure if it would hold in the glass for a couple hours.

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• David J Cooper wrote: 88 points

  January 31, 2019 - Probably didn't give this the time it deserved, although it didn't seem all that interesting. Tarry dark fruit and a bit of menthol is all I wrote in my note.

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• Fernando81 wrote:

  April 2, 2018 - A 29yo oldie! dusty aroma on my 1st solaia..like old dark chocolate. Brick garnet red med intensity .Silky smooth and fine grained tannins. The fruit has desintegrated =/. Finish is soft.. alcohol 12.5 %vol. I can tell the elegance and quality this must have had.. Not for this bottle anymore unfortunately it heydays lay behind.

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• nbkoapn Likes this wine:

  August 22, 2015 - Drink this one right from bottle. Had some berry fruit to start with but faded after 20 minutes so not worth the decant.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Antinori
• Varietal SuperTuscan Blend
• Designation Solaia
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT

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• In Cellars 120 (66%)
• Consumed 63 (34%)

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