1997 Castello di Monsanto Chianti Classico Riserva Il Poggio

Community Tasting Notes (59) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  1/30/2024 - StevieW Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Bricking. On the nose, dusty plum, ink, savory components, fresh cut white mushrooms, black tea, minerals. These follow through in the mouth with stewed fruits, good acidity, nice balance and long finish w some salt. Still has a bit of drying tannins, which I suspect are wood-derived.

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  9/10/2023 - Hanover wrote: 88 Points

  Nice color and level; excellent cork; subtle nose, a little musty; tannin, fruit and acidity remain. Showing its age, but certainly worth drinking, not holding.

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  10/6/2022 - marco_graz Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Beautiful intense red color with garnet nail, at the nose it's balsamic but also very earthy, with also thyme, juniper and pine needles, very expressive in this moment. On the palate it was the same complex and multilayered, adding up also a metallic note, with still strong but smooth tannins and nice acidity. The balance of this wine after 25 years still resonate in my mind few days after opening it. The finish was incredibly long and pleasant.

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  2/18/2022 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Another excellent showing for this wine.
  I appreciate the traditional style with good tannin presence even after 25 years.
  Great complexity, no excess of oak or alcohol; excellent balance and length.
  Will hold for quite a while...

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  6/7/2021 - forceberry wrote: 85 Points

  A blend of Sangiovese (95%), Canaiolo and Colorino. Fermented and macerated with the skins for 20-22 days in stainless steel tanks. Aged for approximately 18 months in partly new 500-liter demi-muids. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite dark, moderately deep and somewhat translucent garnet color with a brick-red rim. Somewhat dull, stuffy and slightly dusty nose with aromas of earth and damp wood, followed by sweeter notes of wizened figs and raisins, some old leather and a little bit of sunny dark fruit. Overall the nose doesn't give much and feels perhaps a bit off. The wine is ripe, full-bodied and silky with quite savory flavors of juicy black cherries and sunny plummy fruit, some toasty oak spice, a little bit of dried figs, light ferrous notes of blood, a hint of sour cherry bitterness and a touch of dusty, sun-baked earth. The overall feel is rather modest in acidity for Il Poggio and the medium tannins start to feel rather resolved at this point. The finish is dry with a quite long aftertaste of ripe dark plums, some wizened red cherries, a little bit of savory wood spice, light dusty tones, a hint of earth and a touch of sour cherry bitterness. The alcohol becomes quite pronounced towards the end of the aftertaste.
  
  At first the wine seemed corked, but it never seemed to get worse (as opposed to how corked wines usually behave) and there was quite a bit of fruit left in the wine. However, I see that many users in CT have commented that the wine isn't up to par, so I'm inclined to think that we really didn't have an off bottle, but there seems to be some kind of systemic problem with this vintage; too many notes seemed to exhibit the same traits as our bottle. All in all, a somewhat disappointing vintage of Il Poggio - even if the wine wasn't aromatically sound, the structure and persistence here wasn't at the same level with the other Il Poggio vintages we tasted at the same event.

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