Community Tasting Notes 29

• Brain Capers Likes this wine:

  January 9, 2024 - Pulled cork an hour before dinner, the wife said first taste was quite powerful, but the wine softened over dinner. Really good, some liveliness, and maybe a bit of Brett. Very nice, and fun to drink, with one more bottle, from a garagiste shipment years ago. Yum.

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• studleytrey Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 24, 2023 - Not enjoying this quite as much as the 9VA, but it is still a solid wine. Ruby to garnet color. Smells like dark and dark red fruits, dry leaves, graphite, black tea, orange peel, crushed rocks, earth, and a touch of floral. Medium body and finish, high acid, with flavors of dark fruits and strong minerality—I mean really notable mineral core here that lingers.

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• don_quichotte Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 28, 2022 - Look, I know that Cornelissen’s wines are sometimes a bit weird/too funky for their own good.
  
  But this is drinking incredibly well. Pure, clean dark fruits with melted tannins and enough acidity to keep the whole thing interesting. Probably the most interesting Sicilian wine I’ve ever drunk… great stuff and at its peak.

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• mdanyc Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 17, 2020 - A little less funky than some of the FC wines we’ve had over the years, perhaps because it’s a few years old and mellowed out? Enjoyed it with food (meat loaf - but of course just about anything tastes good with meat loaf). Perhaps I should be storing these wines more instead of drinking them as soon as purchased.

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• AHolland wrote: 95 points

  September 7, 2019 - So good. Powerful. Vanilla, Cinnamon on the nose. Strong blackberry. Some mushroom- soy sauce flavor. Long pepper finish. Chewy
  
  So much sediment- have never seen so much in a wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Frank Cornelissen
• Varietal Nerello Mascalese
• Designation MunJebel Rosso 9
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Sicily
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Sicilia
• UPC Code 8033373291081

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• In Cellars 54 (37%)
• Consumed 91 (63%)

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