Community Tasting Note
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drrobvino wrote: 94 points
July 31, 2015 - Bev & Rob's Fri nite blind: Insanity in a bottle. This is a "why I drink wine" bottle.
Had been opened and slowly consumed over 3 days, put back in the cellar under cork each night. We pulled the remaining wine out at the end of our blind tasting to get some "Italian perspective". Wow.
Light ruby/tawny at the core, fading to a tawny/almost colorless rim.
Nose of tobacco, tar, tart red cherries, menthol, ash, truffles, the list goes on and on and on.
Palate showed a med bodied wine at 13.5% abv, with sappy tart red fruit pitted against earthy tobacco and tar flavors, perfectly balanced with med+ acidity and astringent, leathery tannins that always seem to show up in great Italian wines as they mature and integrate. Med+ finish of cigar box, truffle, and sour cherry, goes on and on as the acid and tannins trade places for front and center on the palate stage. Utterly seamless...even after 3 days opened.
Delicious now, drinking beautifully, and will continue to do so through 2020 or thereabouts.2,905 views