Taste on opening and about poured down the drain. Hot EtOH, overripe, all over the place. Gave it 24hrs, more expressive, still a bit hot and disjointed. Simple profile, don’t hate it with pasta. This is the Italian equivalent to a Belle Gloss Pinot. Some will like it, others will tolerate. Will give these a few more years of slumber. At $25, would make a nice high end cooking wine if fails to evolve in 5 years.
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Thin, light on flavor and color. No nose except for alcohol. Labeled as 14.5%, more like 15.5%. Very raw. Beautiful label but not worth the forty bucks plus tax. I will visit my other five bottles in a couple of years but don’t have much hope. A ray of hope, I only forced down 2/5ths of the bottle and revisited it the next night. Slightly better but way to much alcohol forward.
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7/15/2023 - Theodore S Butts wrote:
Taste on opening and about poured down the drain. Hot EtOH, overripe, all over the place. Gave it 24hrs, more expressive, still a bit hot and disjointed. Simple profile, don’t hate it with pasta. This is the Italian equivalent to a Belle Gloss Pinot. Some will like it, others will tolerate. Will give these a few more years of slumber. At $25, would make a nice high end cooking wine if fails to evolve in 5 years.
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9/21/2022 - Gooddummy Does not like this wine: 80 Points
Thin, light on flavor and color. No nose except for alcohol. Labeled as 14.5%, more like 15.5%. Very raw. Beautiful label but not worth the forty bucks plus tax. I will visit my other five bottles in a couple of years but don’t have much hope.
A ray of hope, I only forced down 2/5ths of the bottle and revisited it the next night. Slightly better but way to much alcohol forward.
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6/22/2022 - BoulderWine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Good stuff. Somewhat lighter in color and body with red fruits that opened up nicely over 3 nights. A solid go-to bottle for any evening. Great QPR.
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1/9/2022 - daveyleis1 wrote: 90 Points
Light and crisp not much nose to it. Not sure it will develope but it needs a few years. If I make it to 2026 I’ll let you know. I have two cases.
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