1995 Duca di Salaparuta Sicilia Duca Enrico

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  12/24/2023 - Lethemgo Likes this wine: 95 Points

  From magnum, perfect cork. Decanted for sediment, served 30 min later. Faint orange rim. Explosive nose with english candies, dry mushrooms, leather and old wood. Delicious mouthfeel with perfect equilibrium between dryness and fruit, so italian. A touch of crispy acidity and mouthfilling tannins. High equilibrium and lasting taste. Delicious.

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  3/13/2017 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  Duca Enrico was the first commercially available Nero d'Avola red wine with its 1984 vintage. The grapes are sourced from low-yielding bush-trained vineyards. Aged for 18 months in oak barrels.
  
  Dark black cherry color with noticeable mahogany hue and some pale bricking towards the rim. The nose feels pretty old with overdeveloped dried-fruit aromas of prunes, raisins, dusty earth and hints of blackberry jam. The wine is full-bodied, rich and unctuous on the palate with juicy, developed and somewhat indistinct flavors of raisins, prunes, dried figs, some exotic spice, a little bit of inky character and some umami flavors of soy sauce. There's quite a bit of complexity here, but overall all the youthful flavors have faded away and the wine has shifted to that vague "old wine" territory. The structure relies mainly on the fine-grained yet still quite grippy tannins, as the acidity feels rather low and insufficient to give the wine any freshness. The finish is spicy, somewhat bitter and very developed with dried-fruit flavors of raisins, some prunes, a little bit of dried black cherries and a hint of minty VA. The tannins lend a moderately grippy touch to the aftertaste.
  
  A wine that is quite enjoyable and still complex enough to offer some drinking pleasure, but which is overall quite deep into that "old wine" territory. Although the wine isn't old enough to be marked as "oxidized", it has lost most of its character and started to taste just raisiny with that umami-driven old wine flavor of soy sauce and beef stock. The acidity also feels a bit too low, somewhat reducing the enjoyability of the wine. An interesting experience, but not a particularly memorable one, I'm afraid. Most likely this has been much more interesting some 10 years ago.

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  3/27/2015 - Stlam Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Beau nez frais de cerise et de fraise. La bouche est bien évolué et équilibré. Terminé 2 jours plus tard, encore en vie avec des notes de cuire et de tomate. Fort agréable, je croix pas que ce vin est mort, mais il ne devrait pas donner grand chose de plus.

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  11/26/2008 - wyno wrote: flawed

  really unfortunate, was corked. Privious bottles were excelent

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