Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.7 points

  • Method: blind; Grassl 1855

    Look: pale+ garnet-maroon

    Nose: balsamic, celery, brown sugar, rhubarb, dried strawberry

    Palate: dried cherry, sun dried tomato, brown sugar; medium+ finish or rhubarb, dried parsley; dry; medium- body; medium- tannin that are nicely resolved but do accumulate a bit; medium, sour acidity

    Overall thoughts: Enjoyable, with nice complexity but getting old and pretty tired. The acidity came off as decently sour, which wasn't great. Still, it's an enjoyable, good wine.

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  • With Jake and Jeanie

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  • I opened this wine with duck made by my wife. The 1975 Castiglion was simply glorious. The nose was earthy and pronounced with cherry and spice aromas. It showed no signs of fading. Notes of cherry, plum, indian spice, meat, kirsch and cassis were woven together in this wine. Sangiovese at its best. Extremely deep palate. This was a full bodied wine which showed dry tannins and then melted into a long caressing finish. It possessed the type of refinement which only develops in a mature wine. 93-94 points.

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