Community Tasting Notes 8

• ASG24 wrote:

  August 20, 2018 - Corked......

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• gordoyflaca wrote: 92 points

  September 13, 2012 - This is a nice, and serious, wine, which needs time to breathe. pure cherry earth and dried brush

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• MindMuse wrote:

  March 27, 2011 - This is a real pity on this bottle. I popped it about an hour before dinner to decant it - which I did - but poured off a taste into glass. Wow, it was just bang on exuberant and gorgeous stuff. Lots of graphite, cherries, bramble berries, dusty earth, light tobacco, high floral tones, a tinge of some rustic element. Stunning, beautiful nose. And the palate was wonderful as well, vibrant bright flavors. The wife took a sniff and swallow as well as was beaming. I'm already thinking 93-94 quality wine or better. I'm excited.
  
  So what, you might ask, constitutes the pity? Did I drop the decanter on the way to the table? Did a guest mistakenly dump it thinking it was something else? Did a hoard of stink bugs do a lemming suicide march into the bottle?
  
  Actually, the latter is the closest. Now I had taken the glass with perhaps an ounce remaining into the library and been doing some work on the computer. About a half hour later I picked it up to enjoy again, and find to my disdain that that tinge of a rustic element had magnified tenfold, and seemed awfully like TCA. But there was still the great aroma and fruit. Foolishly, I did nothing but wait for dinner to pour our glasses. At that time, I was convinced the wine was indeed corked as it had diminished further with the mustiness becoming not overpowering, but distracting and detracting.
  
  So I go on to some length here because there is a lesson, for me and hopefully for you. If you early have any inkling of TCA do not expose the entire bottle to extra aeration as that will make it worse. Reduce oxygen to the bulk of the bottle until you find out from a small sample if you have a corked wine. Having not avoided that mistake, I might still have tried the saran wrap remedy for what was still a mostly solid wine. But I opened a great wine, yet only drank a very good one.

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• ksimback Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 17, 2010 - Loved this one from the very first sniff... decanted for about an hour, tasted over the course of 2-3 hours. Very traditional Classico with all the right parts in perfect harmony... the nose had scents of earth, spice and a bit of that sour cherry... on the palate the fruit came out in a subtle but elegant way... tannins were moderate, with enough to hold up for another 3-5 years easy and just the right amount of acidity... so smooth all the way through the finish - probably the best Chianti I have ever tasted.

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• beezer6 wrote: 90 points

  September 16, 2009 - N. Rosenthal Wine Merchant Old World Trade Tasting (Elysian Hotel - Chicago, IL): Rustic overall. Some solid earth. Lacking a bit of midpalate but still a great wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Podere le Boncie (Giovanna Morganti)
• Varietal Sangiovese Blend
• Designation Le Trame
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Chianti
• Appellation Chianti Classico DOCG

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