2007 Castello dei Rampolla Sammarco Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  12/2/2023 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Better than our previous two tastings. Still dark ruby in color with some bricking on the edge. Plums, blackberries, and chocolate with hints of leather, tobacco and mint in the nose. Deep, concentrated fruit in the flavor, blackberries, blueberries, black currants, plums, licorice and some earthiness in the flavor. Very well balanced, nice acidity, full bodied, complex, and a very long finish.

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  3/11/2023 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 95 Points

  I haven‘t had the 2007 in 8 years and wow has it developped beautifully. Deep purple/ruby color with just a touch of lightening up towards the rim.
  Notes of dark plum, cassis/black currant, black cherries, some sweet spices, lots of graphite/earthy minerality, there is also some tobacco leaf and cedar wood. It's full-bodied, dense and powerful, but also with nice polish, the tannin is still medium+ and there is medium+ acidity adding freshness. Very long finish. A very beautiful Sammarco at the beginning of its drinking window. It will ultimately be eclipsed by the more classic vintages (like 2004, 2010, 2013 or 2016) but a beautiful wine full of character.

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  9/22/2022 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Ruby color. Plums, black currants, blackberries, chocolate, leather, and hints of herbalness and tobacco in the nose. Blackberries, blueberries, licorice and earthiness in the flavor. Well balanced, nice complexity, and a medium to long finish.

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  7/23/2022 - VAGentleman wrote: 89 Points

  Unctuous full of fruit with black olives, mint, slight leather hint. Satisfying but not well integrated. May be not quite ready?

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  7/16/2022 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opened from half bottle, not as rich as I was expecting. While very enjoyable, I will drink my remaining 375ml soon, and wait a few years before opening a 750ml. Plums, blackberries, chocolate, leather, and hints of mint and tobacco in the nose. Blackberries, blueberries, plums, licorice and earthiness in the flavor. Well balanced, nice complexity, and a medium to long finish.

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