Community Tasting Note
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PaulusLoZebra Likes this wine: 94 points
January 17, 2020 - My fifth bottle of this vintage and the best yet. Decanted for 45 minutes, then served, it was magical immediately and fully open at 90 minutes. A wine with a great aromatic profile and an intense, beguiling flavor profile, it is meant to be sipped and savored with a meal, so that every part of its intense savoriness and umami can be enjoyed. This is the pinnacle of Nerello Mascalese "rustico".
Same notes as the previous bottle, except that the acidity and savoriness of this bottle seem bigger and more intense, as do the sweet tobacco leaf and smokiness: complex fragrances and flavors - cherry, dried cherry, plum, earth, minerals, leather, raw red meat, and an exotic spiciness; medium body, very savory; good levels of acid, and gentle but firm and slightly dusty tannins; very good length.
This wine has many great years ahead of it, but I am not sure if it will improve; 2006 seems to be, for Calabretta, a vintage with a slightly shorter - say 20 years - drinking window.
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