2003 Mastroberardino Taurasi Radici

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  7/1/2022 - stet Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Color: medium ruby with some brick, up to the edge
  Nose: stewed dark fruit and some really great balsamic, menthol, and lemon oil notes. Various things emerge, wilted dark flowers, chili pepper, tobacco leaf and wet log smoke
  Palate: balanced and mature. Acidity and tannins are medium, resolved, in equilibrium. This is more medium-full body than full. Confirms the nose and is everchanging
  Finish: medium
  
  Very compelling and I think still near its peak, doesn't show tired at all. Livery aromas that scream aglianico. An absolute guarantee

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  9/28/2021 - Bruce 1er wrote: 95 Points

  Classic profile. Excellent balance with a nice finish.

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  11/19/2018 - MarcEBeaudoin wrote:

  Smooth and soft; still acids, but tame & diminished. The rough grit-like tannin has dissolved away into just a nice, firm background. Dark fruits (Black currant, raspberry), coffee, aged balsamic and ash. Lovely with a soft-ripened cows milks cheese and charcuterie. In the past this wanted lamb, sausage pizza and the like, but is now mature and ready to enjoy.

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  11/20/2016 - Mossrose wrote: 94 Points

  An outstanding example of how the Italian Aglianico grape is capable of making superb, world class wines. Mastroberardino arguably is the greatest winery for Aglianico, making multiple levels, every one of which is reliably dark in color, dense, concentrated, rich, dry, ageworthy, and magnificently structured by tannin and acidity. The outstanding feature of the 2003 is that it has turned the corner and shows how good the wine gets when patiently cellared - rounder, smoother, better integrated, and more delicious.

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  11/20/2016 - RussK wrote: 91 Points

  Russk. K&A's Aglianico tasting. One of the WOTN. Liked the 2009 better. The top wines of the night were all this producer and their Taurasi wines.

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