2012 Feudi di San Gregorio Irpinia Serpico

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  3/12/2023 - Vince_chip Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Encore une fois, un excellent italien. Typique dans les tanins fins mais un peu anguleux et une bonne acidité qui vient équilibré à merveille des fruits noirs profonds. Excellent.

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  12/19/2022 - forceberry wrote: 86 Points

  100% Aglianico from the historic Dal Re vineyard that is still planted with pre-phollexera vines. Aged for 18 months in French oak barriques and 5000-liter botti casks and for another 12 months in bottles. 14% alcohol. Tasted in a tasting of ten Aglianicos.
  
  Very dark, almost fully opaque blackish-red color with a slightly evolved maroon hue. The brooding, somewhat developed and slightly underwhelming nose exhibits aromas of wizened black cherries, some toasty oak tones, a little bit of licorice, light earthy nuances, an evolved hint of raisiny dark fruit and a touch of dark forest fruit. The wine feels dry, silky and moderately evolved on the palate with a quite full body and somewhat concentrated flavors of tobacco and sour cherry bitterness, some oxidative notes of soy sauce, light sweet notes of ripe red plums, a little bit of game, a hint of old leather and an aged touch of prunes. The structure relies more on the quite assertive and grippy tannins than on the medium-plus acidity. The finish is dry, quite grippy and relatively tertiary with a long aftertaste of crunchy cranberries and sour cherry bitterness, some raisiny tones, a little bit of earth, light oxidative nuances of meat stew and soy sauce and a hint of pouch tobacco. The wine ends on a rather grippy, tannic note.
  
  Curiously, I expected Serpico to be a capable of developing much longer. Based on the somewhat tertiary notes that are verging on oxidative, this wine feels like it has reached its plateau of maturity, yet hasn't evolved into something particularly interesting. The tannins feel still very tough and unresolved, but I doubt the fruit department retains enough substance to stay good until the tannins have resolved and softened enough. The acid structure seems also a bit too soft and easy for such a big and burly wine. Overall this wasn't at the level of the other Serpicos I've tasted.

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  7/13/2022 - knothoef wrote: 90 Points

  Dark, firm, aromatic

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  6/29/2021 - Montesquieu wrote: 90 Points

  The enormous tannins and earthiness of this wine strike me as one for long aging, but the pros say otherwise, with a drinking window through 2025. Tough at first open, it rounded out with 30-60 minutes air and proved a good companion to bison ribeye. This is a big, structured, wine full of tar, dark earth, and ink. Drank at the New Sheridan Steakhouse in Telluride.

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  5/10/2021 - Vince_chip Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Au départ c’est un peu rude et ordinaire, le côté italien ressort après un bon 3-4h d’ouverture avec des beaux tanins assez aiguisés, beaucoup de fraîcheur, des cerises noires et une longueur en bouche qui laisse une finition très soignée. Bien bon au final, mais il avait besoin de son air !

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