Community Tasting Note

• CSteefel wrote: 89 points

  January 9, 2021 - A lighter style of Isole e Olena Chianti Classico, at 8 years this is showing a softer almost pretty side, but lacking the drive, precision, and penetration of the better Isole e Olena CC (2010 and 2016). I guess one could call this "elegant", but "simple" is closer to the mark.
  
  On Day 2 and 3, I kept checking back to see if this was really the same wine. The light cherry side seemed to be gone, and the wine was much more powerful and even tannic. I might have thought that it was just my palate evolution, but on Day 3 it was the same story. I would not say the wine improved dramatically, meaning it was still slightly four square, but certainly the wine fleshed out.

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