2016 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso Calderara Sottana

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 91.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View BadOyster's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/23/2024 - BadOyster wrote: 92 Points

  Quite a tasty wine - like licking a wet rock that was used to smash fresh-picked strawberries. In the most pleasant way of course. Appropriate for $54 flash sale at LB.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Lanzelot's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/11/2024 - Lanzelot Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The color is pale ruby-garnet. On the nose there are pronounced aromas of strawberries, dark cherries, kirsch, little graphite and tobacco. The acidity is high. The tannins are also high and very silky. The wine is medium bodied und has great length. The flavors on the palate are similar to the nose and also pronounced. Glass I used: Riedel Veritas New World Pinot Noir

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Lype's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/5/2024 - Lype Likes this wine:

  Classy, inviting bouquet. The palate is savory, a mixture of intense and effortless, crushed cherries, spices, licorice, minerals, charcoal and smoke. Tannins dry the roof of mouth, oak is fully melted into the mix, which is just lovely. Long mouth drying finish. Nicely accessible now and one cannot deny that this is convincing but, at least at this point, did not quite reach the next level I was hoping for. I liked it very much, though. Cannot wait to open a bottle of 2020 and a bit later 2021.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View funderwood10's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/19/2023 - funderwood10 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Weaker bottle than my first, a bit lacking in acid

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Tobinski's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/29/2023 - Tobinski Likes this wine:

  Concentration without weight. Sappy red licorice and maraschino cherry. Polished and suave. On the mid-palate the acidity plays second fiddle, but then it creeps in judiciously for a wonderfully harmonious finish.

  2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 31 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.