1996 Querciabella Camartina

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  2/20/2018 - bobdobilina wrote: 89 Points

  Popped and poured.
  
  Very dark rich mahogany color to a dark ruby rim. Color remains fairly fresh at this stage in its life.
  
  Quite a mysterious, high-toned nose of wild flowers, dill, camphor and boysenberries.
  
  Deep dark cool fruits on the palate with just enough acidity as a counter weight. Quite long on the palate but fairly compact. Fruit is starting to recede a little showing acid and slightly drying tannins on the finish.
  
  Entering a tertiary stage at this point. Interesting if a little short of great.

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  1/21/2017 - forceberry wrote: 85 Points

  Typically a Cabernet-driven blend of organically farmed Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese. Aged in French oak barriques (25% new). 13% alcohol.
  
  Fully opaque and even somewhat cloudy blackish cherry red color. Surprisingly fresh, red-fruited nose with aromas of cherries, crunchy redcurrants, some herbal elements and a lifted hint of sweet VA character. The wine is medium-bodied, crunchy and lively but somewhat hollow on the palate with the fruit department feeling relatively fresh but very light and dilute. There are understated flavors of some crunchy redcurrants, light sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of sweet, toasty oak spice and a hint of ripe dark fruit. Overall the wine is dominated by an angular framework of high acidity and moderately tough and somewhat grippy tannins with too little fruit to flesh out the skeleton. The finish is quite tightly-knit, tough and short with moderately pronounced tannic grip and full flavors of crunchy red fruits, some cassis tones, a little bit of sweet mocha oak and a touch of earthy character.
  
  A remarkably youthful and fresh effort for a Super-Tuscan at 20 years of age, but it seems that the flavors have simply faded away instead of evolving. Had the flavors been more substantial, this could've been a very lovely wine, but now it felt only very hollow and underwhelming with the tannins and high acidity sticking out from a savory, light fruit department like a sore thumb. Unless this was a poor bottle, I doubt the wine will benefit from any additional aging - the fruit will only die away while the firm structure will stay unresolved for another decade or two.

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  5/17/2014 - Tudz Drkl Likes this wine:

  Excellent wine with still fresh fruit, spicy notes and hints of age for mellowness. The structure and acidity remain providing for good length and a pleasurable mouthful.

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  3/24/2012 - Grenik wrote: 92 Points

  Nicely aged bottle. Dark core with a light rim. Nose was subtle with some forest and earth notes and nicely layered. The taste was very enjoyable. Subtly shifting flavors of dark, reduced fruit with loam, tobacco, and forest floor. It developed nicely throughout the night. Excellent.

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  11/14/2011 - artyp wrote: 94 Points

  Maybe it was the bottle or maybe it was the restaurant, but this wine was smoth, tasty and outstanding. I can't remember enjoying a wine as much as this bottle in a long while.

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