2018 Castello dei Rampolla Sammarco Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  11/1/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  Has intense, briary fruits along with a touch of tobacco and earth. There are light florals too. It is a deep, inky and powerful wine, but is light on its feet, gliding across the palate. There's good savoury nuance and the perfect amount of tannic chew. Length is imposing. Really good wine.

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  10/10/2023 - tomoem wrote: 90 Points

  Herein is a wine that is very well built but lacking immediate flavor notes. A wine that on the nose is not present and In fact closed.
  
  In mouth the wine is more fresh, lively, and with loads of acidity but lacking flavor. I also found the wine having good amounts of chocolate at the mid pallete and vanilla on the finish. It is too young too judge. I get the structure but lacking on basic enjoyable notes at least now.

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  8/5/2023 - JWS84 Likes this wine:

  Relative to some older wines from Bolgheri, this showed the reserve of its vintage and place. Linear and closed, it didn’t really show its stuff until day two when it gained depth. This wine has many years in front of it.

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  6/24/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  Notes of dark chocolate, sweet tobacco, cassis, leather, violets and baked earth. It is rich and intense, but also contained, possessing a high degree of elegance. Tannins are ripe and there's an uptick of fresh, minerally acidity adding to the energy of the long finish.

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  2/18/2023 - mhensel wrote: 89 Points

  Dark cheery red - drank it over 2 days --- Nose shy, red fruit, cherries, redcurrant, nice sour tone, some elegant wood notes --- Palate fresh, vivid, pretty strong acidity level, red fruit, some vanilla, some mint, herbal aspects, nice sweet tone --- Finishes medium long, tartness coming through. Tasted even better on day one. Shows potential but I am not sure where this vine will be going to, showing too less right now. 89 for now.

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