2001 Cantine Antonio Caggiano Taurasi Macchia dei Goti

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  10/23/2021 - WetRock wrote:

  Reached for the Durand out of conditioning. After seriously putting real train on my arm I backed that out and finished the last half with a regular waiter corkscrew. Long, tight, very resilient cork. Not much ingress on it either. In contrast to my lat try this showed no oxidation. Very fresh and barely getting into maturity in fact. Keith's note is kind of my mindset where this doesn't seem to really be maturing. Its just slowly getting older. This is seems like its just getting maturity but given the closure and grape maybe this doesn't really age the same way many others do. Maybe it just sort of on a long slow curve. Terrific in any case. Vibrant and dark yet. Plenty of richness. Medium tannin. Fig, lava rocks, blackberry and many other things if you must note. Four nights later a bit faded yet not lesser in any other way. Good stuff.

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  7/17/2021 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This doesn't feel like it's changed *that* substantially in the 15 years I've owned it but I definitely like it better than my original note indicates. It is still youthful in a lot of ways with rich, punchy fruit and those searing aglianico tannins but now it feels put together very harmoniously and some of those flavors have developed a bit in the umami direction and melded together nicely in a way I can only describe as the way a day or two in the fridge improves a bolognese sauce or beef bourguignon. Feels like it's easily got at least a decade of fuel left in the tank.

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  6/14/2021 - ssouth wrote: 93 Points

  Still intense and bright and rich. No rush
  Did well with Cajun cream pork chops

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  5/16/2021 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Dried porcini, raisins red blackberries, old leather, black truffles, garrigue, tobacco, cedar. Can tell the oak is used judiciously here. Full bodied, acid is pretty tame but the tannins are still HUGE. Can go for another 10 years.

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  3/30/2018 - WetRock wrote:

  There was a strong note of oxidation floating over this like a cloud when opened. It really felt separate from the wine and faded by night two. Because the wine itself doesn't come off as that advanced. It really seems like something that will be around a drinking well for a while. It's drinking better on night two honestly. Strong iron and wet brick nose with increasing notes of camphor. The palate shows some notes of wood over a lengthy even body. Medium yet strong tannin. Touch of green in the tannin and somewhat drying. Enough acidity to keep the finish clean. Hard to tell if the tannin are from wood or grape or both. Maybe some stem inclusion given the camphor and green tannin note.
  Overall I enjoyed this quite a bit for it's older world flavors and structure. That puff of oxidation gives me some pause but I'm tempted to leave the other bottle go for another 5-10 years. A good find.

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