Community Tasting Note
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skurtz Likes this wine: 89 points
October 11, 2014 - Home made pizza night! A nice excuse to pull out an 19y Tuscan. This was an impromptu selection, the wine was removed from the wine fridge at 56C and popped with only half hour to breathe.
Regrettably this wine is showing its age when forced out into the open like this. Very closed on the nose and palate at first, muted fruit, tartness. The tannins almost entirely nonexistent at this stage. About 45 min after opening, as the wine approached room temp, the fruit flavors developed greater intensity, mostly cherry. Aromas of alcohol and faint berry on the nose now, about an hour after opening. This tasted very nice with the pepperoni, mushroom, and onion pizza but I'm afraid the wine wouldn't have shown well without food. This bottle at least was a bit over the hill, but not unpleasantly so.
A different story on day two, this has devolved and lost all complexity. Now all that remains is sour cherry and acid. One bottle left in my cellar and it's time to drink up.2,400 views