2005 Covington Cellars Sangiovese

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 87 points

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  10/13/2011 - CaliCab wrote: 87 Points

  OK. This wine is a bit of a jeckyll and hyde. Why? It's great. It's a great wine. Warm, heavy, thick and mouth coating, tarty fruit, lots of good warm oak in the form of smoke and roasted meats. High-ish alcohol at 13.9% but completely hidden away - very little bite and almost no bitterness. Good finish, with tannins coming out on the back end and the acid and sweet fruit lasting a good while.
  
  So the downside? It is not characteristically correct for sangiovese at all. Yes, it is too sweet. There is almost none of the raw meat and blood you;d love to get on the nose. It is too thick, too viscous. Not high enough acid. Not your standard tart cherry.
  
  So, it is god. But it is so wrong.
  
  I might even mistake this for a merlot if it was poured blind.

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  9/2/2011 - lbh wrote:

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