2009 Mandrarossa Sicilia Cartagho

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 86.8 points

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  1/6/2020 - benny-g Likes this wine: 90 Points

  On pouring there is immediately an aroma of black fruit. The flavour is fruity with consistent tannins, a bit of bitterness and a rustic, earthy touch. It seemed quite thin and lacking depth when I had it while preparing the family dinner and I was going to score it at 84 then. But having it with the pasta with a tomato based sauce, it proved to be the ideal companion to the dish, so I gave it a higher score. It is without doubt the pleasant fruity acidity that made it suitable to accompany my pasta dish.
  
  This wine keeps improving, developing a lovely florality. Probably should have poured it before to give it some air. Rating increased even more.

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  10/25/2015 - quaglia wrote: 84 Points

  Full ruby red, with purple rim. Consistent.
  Intense, complex and fine at nose: fruity: ripe cherries and floreal (carnation). Some tobacco reminds.
  Dry, alcoholic and rounded. Good acidity, tannic and medium minerality-
  Intense, persistent and fine.
  Nice fruit, with a good tannic spine, but lacking some body and personality.

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  8/23/2015 - Life At Your Leisure 🍷 wrote: 88 Points

  Opaque ruby color with bracing acidity and a meaty character. Full-bodied, racy, and fleshy in texture with attractive tannin. Notes of dark berries, tobacco, and scorched earth. This requires time to settle and should drink better from 2017 to 2027.

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  3/9/2015 - easycon69 wrote: 85 Points

  Not very impressive Nero d'Avola for me...

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  6/22/2014 - to_sty wrote: 89 Points

  Somehow better than the previous ones ... may just have been the weather :)

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