2010 Melini Chianti Classico Riserva Vigneti La Selvanella

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  11/12/2020 - Gcashman wrote: 91 Points

  Sorry this is my last bottle

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  11/9/2020 - Gcashman wrote: 91 Points

  Really stellar for a Chianti. Perfectly balanced between fruit, earth, acidity and tannin.

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  9/27/2020 - wari wrote: 92 Points

  Really nice at this age

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  6/17/2020 - PaulusLoZebra Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Much better than the last bottle, this was decanted and served one hour later, and was a hit with our dinner guests served with whole wheat fusilli and home-grown blue oyster mushrooms. The wine has the aromatic profile, extraction and hint of sweetness of the international style, yet it has a prominent acid and tannin structure typically found in the traditional style. The marriage with the mushrooms came also thanks to its dusty, musty bittersweet finish. Excellent QPR.

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  4/6/2020 - PaulusLoZebra Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Melini’s 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva La Selvanella is surprisingly young for a relatively inexpensive wine, with a deep ruby core showing very little age at the edges. The wine needed a long time to open up, and in retrospect should have been decanted 2-3 hours before dinner. The fragrances of sour cherries, sweet cherries and plum are straightforward. It has a full body, with good acidity and a sweet mid-palate followed by prominent, drying tannins and a rather bitter bittersweet finish. The style seems to be a marriage of Chianti and Napa-wannabe Brunello, but not fitting easily into either place. What food for this? Big, simple, hearty fare. Good QPR, as there is a lot of wine here for the price, but it is an awkward wine. Will it perhaps be better in another five years?

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