1997 Poliziano Le Stanze Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93 points

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  11/11/2018 - wardamnwine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Last bottle sadly. Still very primal, loads of fruit and integrated tannins. Drink now or give it a few more years.

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  3/13/2016 - Caruso Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Ruby with slight orange rim. Mid intense nose of rasberry, currant, forest floor, plums, hints of cedar and tobacco all this after 24 h after decantation. There are high levels of ripe tannin and high acidity. Though it benefits of air, i don't believe in much more positive development, because there is too much tannin to be shed. If it only has more poise... -2020 maybe longer...

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  1/9/2011 - giopie wrote:

  very good

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  2/9/2005 - jusuf Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pleasant nose with strawberries. Soft and harmonious on the palate. Full of power and concentration. Red and black fruits. Some eucalyptus. Long velvety finish.

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  11/27/2004 - SteveHyde wrote:

  My last bottle of the 97 Le Stanze, and I caught it at peak. I tell you, the 97 Tuscans are in great form right now. Thankfully, I have 5 of the 99 resting comfortably in the cellar.
  
  This is a blend of Cab and Merlot, and the lable indicates that for 1997 they added some Sangiovese as well. I will confess to a bit of snobbish resistance to Polizano at times, simply because the company is so resolutely commercial, and so clearly brand-oriented, that it cuts against my elitist preference for wines with a more artisanal sensibility. Still, even an elitist snob would have to acknowledge how damn good this wine is right now. The nose spills over the glass with black cherry and raspberry fruit, spice and clove and cyprus. In the mouth, in the mid-palate and on the finish, the secondary notes come through, butressed by enough tanin and grip to hold everything together. We served this with a squash soup and leek and shallot risotto, and as our guest said (an old friend from Denmark), the wine was a meal in itself. A lovely SuperTuscan, very well made, and singing. At the same time, this is a bottle I bought in Italy, had airshipped to the US, and stored myself ever since. Speaks volumes for the importance of provenance and storage. There was never a question about where this bottle had been or how it had been treated, and it showed in how it tasted. Yumm!

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