1971 Antinori Tignanello

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  2/12/2022 - 67366 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opened with a Durand, cork just about intact and poured immediately. Musty aromas blew off very quickly to give a lovely tertiary nose of ripe dark fruits with hints of smoke and sweetness. Very well balanced and retaining some acidity after all this time. Medium bodied with surprisingly delicate red fruit flavours and notes of wood, leather and a little spice. Smooth tannins and a soft medium finish with a little crunch. Probably past its best but holding up remarkably well nonetheless. A privilege to taste this piece of history and fortunately have another bottle which I must open soon.

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  2/26/2020 - mblatino wrote: 87 Points

  The first vintage of Tignanello.
  
  Opened and poured straight away .
  
  Dark cloudy garnet red core with the edges starting to lighten.
  
  On the nose it is tertiary. A closed and musty bouquet which is slowly opening up for some cherry, smoke, violets and orange with time in the glass.
  
  On the palate it is fragile red fruit, soft soft tannins and subtle acidity.
  
  No doubt that this is way beyond it’s best years but I’m impressed by how it’s still hangin’ on for dear life. Medium to medium plus length in the finish.
  
  A very exciting once in a lifetime wine.

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  10/18/2018 - forceberry wrote: 96 Points

  The first vintage of Tignanello, tasted in a vertical of vintages 1971-2004. Does not contain Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend - only Sangiovese and a small percentage of local varieties. According the label this is the bottle #30229 - although some sources say only 25,000 bottles of this vintage were made.
  
  Remarkably - and very surprisingly - deep, extracted dark cherry red color with a mahogany hue and a quite wide, pale brick-orange rim. Savory, restrained and quite nuanced nose with aromas of licorice, some wizened blackcurrants, a little bit of ripe black cherry, light smoky tones and a tertiary hint of raisiny sweetness. The wine is dense, dry and extracted on the palate with concentrated, quite developed and pretty chewy flavors of ripe dark fruits, wizened black cherries, some tart red plums, a little bit of sweet cigar smoke, light woody tones of pencil shavings, a hint of old leather and a touch of sour cherry bitterness. Even at the age of +45 years the wine feels remarkably structured and muscular with its moderately high acidity and grippy, grainy tannins. The finish is grippy, long and powerful with brooding flavors of black cherries, some tannic bitterness, a little bit of sour red plums, light sweeter notes of prunes and wizened dark berries, a hint of savory oak spice and a touch of crunchy redcurrants.
  
  An exceptional blockbuster that shows it age, yet is still remarkably alive and kickin' at almost 50 years of age. In this vertical of Tignanellos, this vintage felt somewhat more youthful than many of the younger vintages and especially the apperance here was exceptionally deep and dark for its age. Comparing this and the vintage 1975 - the two best vintages in the vertical - this wine felt slightly more old-school, while 1975 had a somewhat more modern air to it. However, this wine also felt a bit more straightforward and clumsy, while the vintage 1975 showed more depth, finesse and complexity. Both the vintages were in a class of their own and among some of the best Tuscan reds I've ever tasted, but if push came to shove, I'd say that the vintage 1975 was the better out of the two.

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