1997 Antinori Tignanello
Community Tasting Note
pavel_p wrote:
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - Looking at the wide range of tasting impressions on this wine, I suspect that in addition to storage condition, and bottle variation - which from my little experience seems a bigger issue for some Italian producer than for wines from most other regions - decanting time also plays a major role here.
This was not decanted but opened with pasta and then drank over about 3h. In neck fill. Cork in good condition with about a third soaked. A remarkably clear or even brilliant medium garnet with only the translucent rim hinting at the age of this wine. My first impression was that the bottle might be bad as the wine was showing an unusual sweetness and a hint of wet cardboard, but after 45 min it came together nicely. A nose with sous-bois, and earth followed by a wonderful and very bright expression of rather youthful, and more red than dark, fruit. Well delineated and almost as clear as the color in the glass. With increasing decanting time the medium tannins however took over on the palate and rendered the impression of a wine that has not yet found its balance. Medium finish.
Having now had Tignanello from very good Tuscan vintages between 89-04, I am yet to find a truly convincing Tig. Having said that while I find Tigs usually very solid and well made / balanced but rather dull, this was unusual as it showed moments of brilliance but was overall not balanced. This bottle was definitively not tired (as others have experience) but the risk of drying out in 5-10 years is probably bigger than the possibility of achieving greatness with more bottle age.
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