2007 Montesecondo Chianti Classico

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 89 points

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  11/13/2016 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Day later from memory. A surprise find in my cellar in that it was an older vintage and I have been drinking '11 and '12 for awhile. Assumption made that it would be in fine form at age 9, enough to take it to a BYOB, but not so confident that I didn't bring a back-up!
  
  All doubts quickly quashed. Beautiful, lush sour cherry nose leapt from the glass, inviting and enveloping, framed with autumnal borders. Medium bodied with that rich cherry fruit skating the line between jammy and precise. Resolves in somewhat furry tannins. Went beautifully with a lamb ragu over homemade pappardelle, the highlight of an otherwise predictably pedestrian meal. Not long from here but lovely right now.

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  9/25/2011 - bevetroppo wrote: 89 Points

  Day later from memory. Charlie and I made a quick trip to Chambers St yesterday. I hadn't been there in a couple of years, and apparently they lost their lease and moved off the corner in a bowling alley-like space a few doors down. The area is a construction mess, in fact it seems all of Southern Manhattan is being torn up. They must have a lot of money from the $12 they're now gouging us at the Holland Tunnel. Crazy. Pretty soon it's going to be cheaper to ship the wine from NY than drive in and get it. The glory of Chambers St. is their relentless pursuit of purity of indigenous varietals and terroir. The genius is their ability to find crazy, unheard of stuff and sell it for $25 or less. We only bought a split case and would have bought more if the 50 cents for 10 minute Muni-Meters weren't about to expire. If you can't tell, I'm about to bag NY altogether for the rest of the year.
  
  This particular wine was a favorite of our extremely knowledgeable salesperson, though I scored some Brownie points when I reminded another worker that Liguria's version of dolcetto is called ormeasco. Such are the joys of wine geekdom. Unfortunately, there didn't appear to be more than 1 bottle of the Chianti left on the shelf, until he disappeared into the basement and returned with the last case in the store which he may well have sequestered for his own unknown purposes. We took four of them.
  
  I drank this last night in a very dark restaurant and couldn't really say much about the color, though it seemed purplish. It has a screamer of a nose, all primary and funky with sour cherry and dirt in a raw winey style that I find most attractive. I tend to smell it more in Rufina than Chianti Classico, though to be honest, I don't know if it's terroir or technique. Medium bodied and smooth texture, yet with those prickly edges. Terrific with a duck breast and seemed to please the others as well, who ate pappardelle with sausage and veal chops. Definitely would buy more and it's just a little more than $20 bucks.

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  7/23/2010 - awinestory wrote: 82 Points

  ... 7/23/2010 rated 82 points: purple, pale purple rim, white watery miniscus
  nose: black fruit, tannic, obvious oak
  palate: dry, acid is med tannin is med+ body is med alc is est 14 finish is med+ finish, very tannic wine with black licorice, oak, vanilla (0 views)

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