Community Tasting Notes 14

• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy wrote: flawed

  December 1, 2023 - Not rated due to mild corking. Hope to try this one again soon!

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• Nanda wrote: 92 points

  October 15, 2023 - At peak. Significant concentration of red cherry with loads of herb and spice. Good complexity and nuance. Long, flavorful finish.

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• Nanda wrote: flawed

  October 15, 2023 - corked

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• Gregory Dal Piaz wrote: 96 points

  May 13, 2020 - This was a terrific looking bottle, cellared since release, with a base neck fill, good cork, and color that is still deep and bright. Tight nose, hints of nutty oak layered over creaminess, soil, fresh medicinal herbs, a touch of iron, so soil driven and dusty, with some dried spice, sun burnt cherry, and flinty blackberry fruit.
  
  So austere, so regal, with just incredible cut and definition in the mouth. There's an important tannic imprint here, but the tannins are so fine grained; it’s elegant yet strict, A german could have made this wine. Gaining some weight on the backend before yielding to the dusty soil driven, cherry skin toned finish. Just a suggestion of bitterness adding amplitude to the bitter black cherry skin flavors of the finish. Just terrific, so complete, nervous with defining tension in the mouth and a persistence to the fruit that is not based on sweetness or weight, but leaves an impression of fruit skin extract on the palate. Absolutely at peak and one of the finest example of Sangiovese I’ve had in a long time. Should drink well for another decade at least, and I wouldn't be surprised if its fine for another decade after that.
  
  Just a regal wine, distinctive, unique, of its place and time.
  
  Originally published with video at: https://www.simplybetterwines.com/gdpandthepig/1999-castellare-di-castellina-i-sodi-di-san-niccolo

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• baroloboy55-2.0 wrote: 95 points

  April 24, 2020 - Like my friend Greg dal Piaz says. A stunning, breathtaking bottle of sangiovese in a superb place. One of the best bottles I've had recently and one of the best sangio's I've had in a very long time. There is a dark, brooding quality to this wine that has perhaps an an affinity to Montalcino initialy, but the spine and structure of this are all Chianti Classico. I envy that Greg has a few more bottles!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Castellare di Castellina
• Varietal Sangiovese Blend
• Designation I Sodi di S. Niccolò
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT

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• In Cellars 51 (44%)
• Consumed 64 (56%)

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