1998 Castello dei Rampolla Vigna d'Alceo

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  1/25/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points

  4th of 6, decanted 15 minutes, perfect level, cork quarter stained, as last Jan's bottle though tannins on exit seemed better integrated, as ever fine line and length and a relative ease of fruit expression unusual in Italian wine, plateau which compared with French tend to be more brittle/4 square, 10 years. F+ (18).

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  1/18/2022 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points

  3rd of 6, decanted 15 minutes, perfect cork and level, back on form of my 15 bottle if with more volume to the fruit, beguiling and complex flavours, youthful robe still, only caution is drying tannins on exit particularly in last glass (as if fruit intensity fading v tannins), upside maybe, needs watching. F+ (18).

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  9/5/2021 - Dionysos 1920 wrote: 88 Points

  Castello dei Rampolla, d’Alceo, dégustation verticale | Caratello | 5 septembre 2021 | Dolder, Zürich
  Dégustation verticale de 10 millésimes de « d’Alceo » du Castello dei Rampola (Vigna d’Alceo jusqu’en 1998). Globalement, une très belle dégustation pour ce vin phare du domaine (assemblage de 85% de Cabernet Sauvignon et de 15% de Petit Verdot). Si les millésimes 1996, 1998 et 2000 étaient un peu trop évolués pour moi, les 2006 et 2010 étaient absolument magiques. Bonnes notes également pour les 2015 et 2016 qui sont promis à un très bel avenir. Je suis par contre un peu plus sceptique sur les 2003, 2008 et 2014 qui ne m’ont pas véritablement emballé.
  1998 : couleur et nez plus évolués que le 1996 mais la bouche est plus équilibrée. Comme le 1996, cette bouteille était sans aucun doute meilleure il y a quelques années.

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  4/10/2021 - querilant Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wow... Excellent super tuscan from this great house. Cabernet blend. 1998 not the best year in Tuscany and than being able to produce such a wine, which is not even over its peak. Two hours decant. Garnet with very little browning. Dark fruit in the nose. So we'll balanced after all these years. 94 points

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  5/25/2020 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Castello dei Rampolla’s Alceo and Sammarco are in my eyes among the best and most consistent Super Tuscans. Slow ox’ed for 30 min and drank with pizza at home. Still a dark garnet with no browning whatsoever. A subtle nose of dark fruit with some wood spices and good freshness, no signs of oxidization, on the palate this is round, one can see the richness of the Shiraz this still had in early years, nicely balanced and resolved, a bit thick but again the typical acidity of Tuscany, tannins almost entirely integrated. Medium (+) length. No reason to wait but will certainly hold up for another 5 years or so

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