2007 Nino Negri Sfursat

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  5/27/2019 - rahul_d_chatter@yahoo.com Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Lovely wine. Orangish ruby red in color. Medium to light bodied. Refreshing fruit, integrated tannins. Notes of berries, tobacco, leather. Medium finish. Delicate and yet elegant. Alcohol in check allows one to enjoy the fruit. Classic old world wine. Enjoyed it on a summer evening with rigatoni bolegnese.

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  10/19/2014 - CO_Roots13 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very interesting bottle. Serious and elegant wine. It definitely needed the 2 hour decant (as it was tight and bitter upon opening). Once it opened up, the nose expressed floral aromas with an abundance of dried dark fruit notes. Palette reflected the nose with additional layers of tarragon, tobacco, tar and orange peel. Character, structure and balance.
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  5/24/2014 - Chapel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  opened and drank over 2 days. great with goat cheese or a garlic-roasted pepper oil spread and also with smoked fish. This IS a food pairing wine and gains 2-3 points higher then just sipping alone i.e. it is not a California wine.

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  4/2/2013 - Krautrocker wrote: 90 Points

  Delicate Nebbiolo of ripe plums, tobacco. Cedar. Comes alive with spice and smoke in the middle. Wonderful soft texture finishing long. Wet flowers.

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  11/17/2012 - bevetroppo wrote: 92 Points

  Day later from memory. I didn't even realize it until they brought me the bottle that this wasn't Cinque Stelle, but I guess the regular cuvée of this property's sfursat. Had never seen a bottle of it before. It was $89 on the wine list and I almost sent it back but experience with Negri's wines made me say let's go for it. Besides, it was just me and I was rewarding myself after a truly grueling day. There's something, I don't know, that just makes me feel special about eating dinner in a good restaurant alone at the bar with a bottle of wine as my date. Maybe it's the idea that we're going to have an intimate conversation over a two hour period and really get to know each other while they bring us food we've chosen to bring us closer together? Ok, it's official-I'm losing my mind...
  
  Air-dried for 120 days before fermentation. Palish garnet color though hard to tell in the dim light. Immediately alluring and sexy nose with notes of deep red fruits, sweet raisins, light smoke and leather. Almost delicate on entry, gaining depth and intensity in the mid-palate but always with elegance and not power, then delivering a glistening reward of tantalizing sweetness before resolving in a dry, balanced finish. Delicious from beginning till end. It was like a long voluptuous kiss. I can't imagine I would like the 5 star more. Drank with a burrata and speck appetizer, and a perfectly prepared veal chop with a side of homemade mushroom ravioli and haricots verts. The earth moved.

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