Tasted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by 5laton with 817 views
Notes from an educational aglianico tasting.
A fair flight, in retrospect I'd have dropped the Puglia and Molise wines and made this a strictly Aglianico del Vulture flight.
A strong flight all around, with the exception of the flawed Camarato.
A rather sad flight indeed, with mostly disappointments and no real standout.
2001 Tenuta le Querce Aglianico del Vulture Il Viola
Italy, Basilicata, Aglianico del Vulture
Fake cork. Nose of bright red fruits, Flintstones vitamins, menthol, and with time a bit of strawberry pancake syrup. However it's juicy and somewhat fresher than expected on the palate, with great acidity and rich complexity. With air the nose grows slightly stewed and the body bulks up a few notches; at last sip this is dense stuff and downright furry with tannin. There's a lingering fruit sweetness on the finish I find slightly cloying, but this is a pretty serious little wine for $15 on release, with 3-5 years still ahead of it if the fake cork holds up. My 2/6 in this flight.
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2001 Re Manfredi - Terre degli Svevi Aglianico del Vulture
Italy, Basilicata, Aglianico del Vulture
Odd nose, with mostly estery fruit and herbal notes. Seems overripe and a little roasted, with candied dark fruit and Coffee Nip (candy) flavors. With time in the glass the astringent backend tannins take over. Awkward and hard to get a read on, but I wasn't overly enamoured of what I tasted this evening. My 3/6 in this flight.
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2001 Paternoster Aglianico del Vulture Don Anselmo
Italy, Basilicata, Aglianico del Vulture
Nose of tar, cherry, menthol, mushroom. Very concentrated on the palate, with flavors following from the nose: tar, menthol, cherry syrup. The wine is dry, however, with a pleasing mouthfilling structure and plenty of astringent tannins. It is approachable now with air, but this wine wants and deserves at least 5 more years in your cellar. Very good in the "massive black hole" style of AdV. My 1/6 in this flight, by a long shot.
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1999 Casa Vinicola D'Angelo Canneto Basilicata IGT
Italy, Basilicata, Basilicata IGT
An odd vitamin note on the nose, with a powdery Sweet Tart quality, and some black pepper. Bit watery mouthfeel, with again vitamin-like flavors and peppery red fruit that does lack somewhat for freshness. Good concentration on the mid and back end, but despite the reasonable acidity the wine grows more tarry and tannic with air. Perhaps not a perfect bottle; cork was dried out and half-rotten, and very difficult to remove. My 5/6 in this flight.
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2001 Tormaresca Castel del Monte Bocca Di Lupo
Italy, Puglia, Castel del Monte
Lifted nose, with fruity aromas that seem a little overripe, plus menthol, spice and floral tones. Sweet ripe fruit, licorice candy, fleshy and rather structured and still a bit astringent. Decidedly international and perhaps a little glitzy, but tasty nonetheless. I think this still needs 1-2 years. 90% aglianico, 10% cabernet sauvignon. My 4/6 in this flight, although I remember liking this more when tasted previously.
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2004 Di Majo Norante Aglianico Molise Contado
Italy, Molise
Nose of cheap sweet oak chips, orange peel, candied cherry. Silky and sweet in the mouth, cherry cough drops, black tea, rather candied and anonymous. Easily the cheapest-smelling and most spoofy wine of the flight. Yecch. Kind of shocking given the good press this wine gets. My 6/6 in this flight.
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