2017 Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga Fontalloro

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  11/18/2023 - wmccone54 wrote: 90 Points

  Decanted and enjoyed with a pepperoni pizza. Very good, but still a bit on the early side. Chewy, unresolved tannin and grainy oak distract. The ingredients are there, but more time will benefit this wine longer term. Drink now with decanting and food or hold for another 1-2 years. Drink through 2032+.

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  10/15/2023 - davidsa Likes this wine: 93 Points

  In the middle between a Chianti and a Brunello. More complex than a Chianti but not as round as a Brunello, still a great wine. On the nose it has sour cherry, liquorice, plumb and currant. Some smoke, chocolate and eucalyptus. It has a good finish and acidity.

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  8/18/2023 - Sam-wine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Needs a bit of air, will open up after more than 1 Hr. Still a very nice full bodied, mid-high acidity and lively tannins interpretation of Sangiovese.
  More on the earthy notes than on the furity side, but very enjoyable.

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  5/13/2023 - UFGators Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Powerful and full bodied. Needs a little air to get going. Very delicious and enjoyable with or without food.

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  4/15/2023 - Rote Kappelle wrote: flawed

  My bottle was affected by rampant cork taint - TCA. The good thing is that it was so much like sticking your head in a mildew ridden cupboard that I felt none of that ridiculous temptation, to which I often succumb, of drinking a lot of unsatisfying wine in the hope it will somehow improve or because I feel I can manage to look past the taint to the wine below.
  
  This wine did suggest considerable depth and power but it presented quite flat and the mildew/wet cardboard elements trampled everything else.
  
  Why keep using cork? It would be the automotive equivalent of using carburetors and chokes instead of EFI; or ditching the motor and going back to the horse. Even according to the cork industry itself the failure rate due to cork taint is about 2-3%, though Wine Spectator has tracked it much higher and then you have to add in the other ways the closure commonly fails - expansion and contraction leading to oxidation, for example. Screw cap is simple and it works. My fears that it would cause me to wait 20-30 years for my wines to develop the mature characters I enjoy in wine have proven unfounded.
  
  Disappointing also because I like Felsina and was feeling excited to try this wine. I will probably have another go at getting a bottle of this vintage, given the reviews of bottles that are not flawed.

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