Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, November 9, 2019 - A single vineyard wine from a plot planted in 1981. Part of the wine is macerated with the skins for 18 hours. Fermented over 25 days in stainless steel. 80% of the wine is kept in stainless steel tanks, whereas 20% of the wine is aged for 12 months in French barriques. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Pale to medium-deep lemon yellow color. Somewhat restrained but also very nuanced nose with fragrant aromas of hay and timothy, some fennel, a little bit of savory wood spice, light notes of spicy red apples, a hint of chopped almonds and a touch of honeyed richness. The wine is moderately full-bodied, fine-tuned and harmonious on the palate with still relatively youthful flavors of hay and timothy, juicy golden apples, some tangy salinity, a little bit of cooked cream, light toasty notes of oak spice, a sweet hint of ripe apricots and a touch of angular stony minerality. The rather high acidity keeps the wine wonderfully in balance and lends it good sense of structure. The finish is long, layered and complex with juicy flavors of apple jam, stony minerality, some zesty citrus fruits, a little bit of toasty oak spice, light creamy notes of panna cotta, a hint of tangy salinity and a touch of honeydew melon.

This wine seems to have only gained additional depth and complexity with age without losing any of its freshness and precision. In a tasting of assorted Verdicchio wines, this probably ended up being as my wine of the night; it perhaps wasn't as concentrated as weighty as some other, more monolithic Riserva wines, but this shows simply impeccable sense of balance, complexity of flavors and even potential to develop further from here. Outstanding. Great value at 23,44€.

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