Community Tasting Note
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wernicke Does not like this wine: 85 points
April 27, 2022 - Average Sangiovese. The scores testamatta gets are mystifying.
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5 Comments
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querilant commented:
4/28/22, 9:30 AM - I find this a very surprising comment. This Testmatta is much too young to drink now. I tried the 2018 a couple of weeks ago and that was harsh and far from mature, but one could certainly taste the potential. Give it a couple of years and I am sure you will uprate this wine significantly. Cheers and be patient.
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wernicke commented:
4/28/22, 9:37 AM - Thanks for you comment. Ordinarily I would take your side that the judgement is premature. However in this case I have tasted many Testamattas in various stages of ageing. None has made the slightest impression. I’m curious which ones you liked?
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querilant commented:
4/29/22, 6:56 AM - Hi. I very much liked the 2010 (unfortunately no bottles left) and the 2016
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wernicke commented:
5/1/22, 9:52 PM - I see. I have tasted those vintages but my experience is quite in line with the 2019
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JJYoyo commented:
10/26/22, 10:49 AM - I haven’t had Testamatta but I have had the Casamatta and found it a competently made but straightforward and “crowd pleaser” wine. Now of course Testamatta is in a whole different league; however, your note tells me that the Testamatta is likely just a supercharged and fancier version of Casamatta - good but not all that interesting.
…. And no, for me “crowd pleaser” is not a snobby perjorative. Plenty of wines are easily understood but also have personality and complexity for days. When a wine is engineered to be a crowd pleaser and not much else - well, that is a different story. Some people may just really like the style. I don’t really care for that style and the style dominates everything else in his wines based on my totally unfair limited sample.