Community Tasting Note

• Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  April 11, 2014 - Antonio Vallana e Figlio: extensive vineyard(s) tour and vertical tasting (The Family's Cellar, Maggiora, Italia): {in cantina} Fascinatingly dark color, with just a minimum of bricking. After 2 hours of aeration in decanter, this was poured to my glass, though I was not at all ready for what followed. Still amazingly fresh on the nose, with a repeating confluence of fresh berries, soil and flowers. The palate is full, precise, seamless; the texture/mouthfeel is singular. Still full of grip and tension, the wine clearly has a few decades of excellent drinking yet ahead (some more positive evolution, too). Beautiful, complete, with a finish that lasts for minutes. I concluded my note with "hauntingly good". very highly recommended
  
  Served non-blind.
  
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3 Comments

• Barry Notes commented:

  1/5/15, 1:14 PM - My birth year to boot. Lucky you, I'm envious.

• Michael T. Zoppo commented:

  12/30/19, 4:54 PM - Great note. Thanks to your and Ken’s note, I picked up a bottle. Will report....

• Tim Heaton commented:

  1/3/20, 7:25 PM - this wine haunts me to this day, as does Antonio - both in a good way. I'll be in Italia again 12 febb - 5 magg, with 3 nights in NYC before my departure. A chance to meet you would be awesome.

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