2013 Joaquin JQN 203 Piante a Lapio

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  2/29/2024 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points

  Leap Day Lunch (Ciao Bella, Mpls): Medium gold color. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. 80-100 year old Fiano vines, spontaneous fermentation and aging in for 5 years in chestnut and acacia casks with no toppin up. Boy, this has an amazing nose. Fresh air, orange peel, jasmine, earthy, shitake mushroom, waxy, toasted nuts, and pear. The palate is rounder and dense, though there is acidity there; lots of ocean elements and minerals, grilled pineapple, candied pear, and apricot on the palate, roated nuts, way, orange zest, broad and expansive. This was fascinating, and not in the "oh, that's interesting" way. This was compelling and though provoking. I will say that the nose is simply superb, but the palate is darn nice too. Really a pleasure to drink. Thanks Brad.

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  5/21/2023 - jkwoodward wrote: 94 Points

  Really a fun wine. Well put together and so different. Still seems to have life left but not sure how to quantify. Not used to drinking 10 year old Italian whites. Honeysuckle and Asian pear, but light on acidity.

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  1/2/2023 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:

  Never had a wine like this; a singular and enjoyable wine if more in the cerebral than pure hedonism. Don't get me wrong I found plenty of visceral pleasure here, but the wine was very much a pure expression of a vision and place. I don't drink much Fiano so I don't have a lot of comparators, but it was really good with food (shrimp and grits). Certainly seemed to have plenty of time ahead.

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  11/8/2022 - jshufelt wrote: 92 Points

  Decanted 30 minutes before service. In the glass, clear, deep butterscotch. On the nose, a bit of petrol funk followed by apricots and floral notes. On the palate, full bodied texture coupled with a crisp attack, mixing sweet peaches and apricots with sour lemons and limes, and a faint hint of tar. A bunch of interesting contradictions.

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  9/20/2022 - awever Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Still need lots of breathing

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