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1996 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia
10/24/2021 - CSteefel wrote: 96 Points
1996 Giacomo Conterno Cascina Francia, a beautiful and very pure expression of aged red-fruited Nebbiolo. So balanced and poised on the nose and in the mouth, this one showed little volatility except for late-arriving herbal notes that lengthen the finish.
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2009 Weingut Keller Abts E® Riesling Großes Gewächs
10/24/2021 - CSteefel wrote: 99 Points
I have had a number of the Keller GGs over the years, including the Hubacker and Kirschspiel. But the Abts Erde seems to follow a different track. The first one was the 2008, sampled way too early, a rich and character-full wine but not necessarily a standout. The first real hint (to me) that I was dealing with a different beast came in 2015 when we drank another bottle of the 2008. Tending to orange and more orchard fruit than the (apparently) lesser siblings, the Abts Erde seems to be undergoing electrification, for want of a better expression, with shape-shifting and latitude-crossing flavors bringing in orchard fruits and hints of more tropical climes. Great richness (like its too early brother), but now showing an almost gossamer transient quality. One of my top 10 wines of 2015. The other night it was the 2009 Keller Abts Erde Grosses Gewachs, which perhaps took things one step further. This is an even richer wine than the 2008, but still displaying the pulsating, shifting character on the palate that brings in ripe orchard fruit with more tropical blood orange, all underlain by a chalky mineral underpinning that seems to provide the mechanism by which all of these flavors and inner mouth perfumes expand on the palate.
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2018 Fontodi Chianti Classico
9/29/2021 - CSteefel wrote: 90 Points
I see the 2018 Fontodi CC is rated the same as the 2017 by Galloni, but I find this riper, much simpler, and generally lacking in grip and ultimately interest. I am sure quite a few years in the cellar would sharpen this up, but it strikes me as verging on overripe, round, even fruity. The 2017 is much better...
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