Community Tasting Note

Wine Canuck wrote:

Saturday, August 1, 2015 - (Tasted Double Blind) On pop and pour this revealed intensely ripe red fruit combined with an earthy, mature secondary/tertiary note of barnyard. As the wine breathes in the glass more emerges: macerated black cherry, maraschino cherry in syrup, wet hay, dusty soil, leather, pipe tobacco, black tea, seared pork, iron shavings, beef blood and old furniture. Given the ripeness of the cherry fruit this must be warm climate and/or a warm vintage. While initially I was considering Bordeaux or the Southern Rhone, when re-poured and evaluated under better light I realized there were no pyrazines for Bordeaux, there wasn't enough alcohol and too much tannin for the Southern Rhone. The ripe cherry fruit, secondary notes, elevated tannin and notable acid along with a medium plus cherry pit finish pointed me toward aged Sangiovese, and the overall profile reminded me of Tignanello. Guessed '93 Tignanello.

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