Community Tasting Note

• dream Likes this wine: 90 points

  August 15, 2017 - Nice nose of red fruits and earthy spices. Quite full and intense with a boatload of acidity and delicious flavors of red earth and crunchy leathers. Finishes with dry, thinner tannins and lots of great spice and licorice notes. This will age on it's acidity but it doesn't have nearly the depth or class of the '13 Fontodi Sorbo tasted a few days ago. Still, it's a great Italian version of a Bordeaux blend that should be at its best in just a few more years. 90+

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4 Comments

• SpoochMan commented:

  8/15/17, 8:38 PM - Are you sure this note is for Saffredi? My understanding is that this wine has no sangiovese in it at all (or very little). It is a blend of new world varietals. So it is very strange to compare this to Sorbo.

• barolo300 commented:

  8/16/17, 12:14 AM - I was just about to post what the previous poster did. No Sangiovese here..it is a mix of Cab S, Merlot and Petit Verdot.

• dream commented:

  8/16/17, 6:55 AM - Wowza, you're right. I didn't do the research and to me it tasted like Sangiovese. Will edit the note. I'll admit it, I was fooled and feel like a fool but it happens to everyone on occasion.

• SpoochMan commented:

  8/16/17, 7:17 AM - No worries, wine humbles us all from time to time.

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