1996 Feudi di San Gregorio Irpinia Serpico

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  8/7/2016 - Tony Molester Likes this wine:

  Cork was intact.Soaked to 50%. Signs of seepage.
  
  tar and leather nose.
  
  I didn't take formal notes, but we were very impressed by how well this wine was tasting. Suave texture, powerful, well evolved flavours and tremendous depth and length. One of the great wines I had this year, but amply deserved about 15-20 years in the cellar to show its best.
  
  Somewhat mature, could go a bit further. Delicious now, so why wait?
  
  Drink or hold to 2024.
  13% abv

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  12/10/2015 - NineteenEightyTwo Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Medium rosewood color. Very bright red fruit flavors on both the nose and the palate. This is only just starting to show the subtlest of tertiary aromas. Palate is very clean and linear, though crackling with a vital energy indicating this wine is still in its youth. The really extraordinary thing about this wine, however, is the finish. There is an incredible uniform minerality that absolutely inundates the back of the mouth. The wine professional who served this to us suggested that this is the influence of a layer of Mount Vesuvius' infamous ash underlying the volcanic soils of this vineyard. That may be a load of bollocks, but I'm going with it. Finally, this has stately tannins that haven't softened a bit in 20 years. Structure freaks like myself will rejoice; this wine will live forever. I will buy every bottle I can get my hands on, with the intention of discovering what else this resolute and indomitable wine will reveal over the next 20-30 years.

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  11/18/2009 - Nanda wrote: 91 Points

  Great perfume that is very bordeaux like. Minerals, earth, cedar, integrated oak and moderately sweet red fruit. Palate has good richness and medium-to-full body. Well integrated tannins. Long, sweet, cedary finish.

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  1/21/2008 - Barbara B wrote: 88 Points

  Feudi di San Gregorio Serpico vertical (Parco dei Principi, Rome): [From magnum] Garnet; fully mature-looking; fine sediment. Fully mature-smelling too: animally (but not Brett), earthy, ripe fruit, roasted kernels, camphor/cedar. Sweet sensation, lowish acidity; lacking that mid-palate length and complexity of the others, but still very flavourful.

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  8/1/2000 - OneLastSyrah wrote:

  Oaky Bordeaux pencil lead nose, full bodied but somewhat hard and hollow. Disappointing and overpriced. Parker said it is a blend of 60% Aglianico, 30% Prugnolo and 10% Sangiovese aged in French oak.

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