2017 Ferrari-Carano Siena

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 88.4 points

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  4/10/2022 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  Bright fruit, easy drinking, fun.

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  1/3/2022 - Neecies wrote:

  Last bottle we opened seemed to have some old world raisin character to the fruit which we liked; this one didn't, leaving some vanilla oak holding the bag. Not impressed.

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  10/6/2021 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  Once upon a time we loved this wine. I recall paying around $30/bottle for it when we lived in Alaska in the 90's, but lost interest after visiting the ostentatious winery they built in Sonoma and haven't touched a bottle in 20 years. Until yesterday that is, when I saw a remaindered bottle at a local market for just $18. Why not, for old times sake, and we opened it last night. It was eminently drinkable when first opened but gained complexity in a decanter over about two hours, and it was a hit at the dinner table. Impossible not to like and a crowd pleaser that actually has some raisinish Italian notes along with boysenberry, plum, canned tomato, dried fruit leather and bay leaf. A few tannins play in the background (it's mostly sangiovese but petite sirah is in the blend) but it goes down like silk.

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  6/4/2021 - Baron Slick wrote: 89 Points

  Decanted 1 hour before first glass. Full bodied, nice texture, and good length, with blackberries, tomato leaf, and spices atop a bed of briars and brambles. It needed 1.5+ hours of air to show its best, letting it shed some of its baby fat while allowing the fruit to become more pronounced. A nice whiff of ash dusted the warm finish. A crowd pleasure and way too easy to drink.

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  3/26/2021 - Woodbridge Brad Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Quite dependable and good wine for a mixed table. Very bright fruit, very slightly sweet, good complexity and a great finish.
  
  Followup note: the rest of the bottle the second day was so sweet, compared to a couple of other wines today the sweetness dominated.

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