2000 Capezzana Ghiaie della Furba Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (108) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  7/3/2021 - oldcabman Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A graceful and elegant old lady, sporting dried fruit, integrated tannins and a medium finish. So well made. Brick red, barnyard bouquet blew off shortly after opening. Served with grilled beef.

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  1/18/2020 - z_willus_d wrote: 96 Points

  The impeccable dark-shaded color of the first glass pour of this bottle was a surprise, as I thought I recalled bricking in earlier bottles opened a decade past. The complex and living bouquet exhibits heavy charcuterie meets barnyard notes, like a slaughter day in the barn. Zippy tertiary indescribables swirl around a dense core of iron minerals and, perhaps, wild briery raspberries. It's epic even before any sip. Rolling down the palate, this juicy, exuberant, acidic, dynamic, and long tailed. I'm not spinning a far tale when I write that this is hands down the finest bottle of wine from Italy that my meager budget has allowed me to experience over the past two decades of wine tasting. It's almost miraculous that fermented grape juice stored in a bottle over 20 years ago could taste this alive and expressive. The mineral and blood components are a force, as is the zippy acidity. This is medium+ bodied and still leaves some tannin paint in its weight. It's begging for a fatty steak (tuna, bison, venison, cow or whatever). There's loads of of tobacco on the long finish with sparkling saline after still some of that sweet and sour currant and raspberry fruit from the mid-palate. It seems the alcohol in this is near undetectable. What a blessing to have several more bottles to follow through the next decade.

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  10/27/2019 - tomoem Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wow I did not expect the bright acidic explosion of cherry and cinnamon to be so evident for a19 year old. Outstanding wine with tons and I mean tons of depth. Very fine particles reside in my glass from this wine. That said there is an outstanding rich and acidic driven fruit with length.
  
  The finish is more cherry with cinnamon and spice (nutmeg).

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  6/24/2016 - Peck Likes this wine: 92 Points

  From Magnum
  Mature Not really Bordeaux on nose or in mouth
  Salmiak leather and round tannins
  Dont wait on this one
  Time now
  Supertuscan without doubt
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  10/4/2015 - Kvg wrote: 90 Points

  The wine was cellared at 51degrees and was decanted for three hours before serving. It was ready to drink but not over the top. Lots of body and a good lasting finish. Too bad these were my last two bottles.

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