2013 Pietradolce Etna Archineri

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  12/5/2023 - tigeek Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Very fruity- too much to my taste usually. But it was a fun drink nonetheless.

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  1/6/2023 - forceberry wrote: flawed

  100% Nerello Mascalese sourced from two Contrada: Rampante and Solicchiata. The 80-90 yo vines are prephylloxeric, growing ungrafted on their own root systems. Macerated with the skins for 18 days. Aged for 14 months in French oak tonneaux. 14% alcohol.
  
  Moderately deep, quite translucent and rather evolved pomegranate color with a tertiary maroon hue. Odd and somewhat unclean nose with some vaguely green overtones along with aromas of hot rusty iron, a little bit of wizened dark fruit and a hint of stone dust. The wine feels dry, austere and quite neutral on the palate with a medium body and understated flavors of stony minerality, some sour cherry bitterness and a distant hint of redcurrants. There's very little fruit here and not much more anything else - except for high acidity and moderately grippy medium tannins. The finish is warm, somewhat grippy and quite understated with a short aftertaste of crunchy redcurrants, some stony mineral tones and a little bit of unripe apple.
  
  There seemed to be something off here. The wine didn't come across as having any TCA, but still many people wondered if the wine was corked, because it was so unlike Archineri 2014 and 2010 we tasted at the same time. In my opinion the wine wasn't corked - or at least not corked by TCA but, perhaps, with some other compounds responsible of cork fault - but there was badly off here.

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  3/14/2021 - RussK wrote: 91 Points

  Russk. I brought to CDC at S&M. Though it was one of my WOTN, the others didn't feel the same. Feminine. Liquid mouth. Nice grippy finish. Could go longer.

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  2/22/2021 - olalar wrote: flawed

  Corked

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  3/18/2020 - loganchambers Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium Ruby; strawberry and smokiness on the nose; touch of salt, embers, ripe strawberry on the palate. Med acidity. Good balance overall - very nice. Had with pancetta rigatoni

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