Community Tasting Note

• Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 26, 2022 - Sometimes things just come together. The first suggestions that Spring is intruding on Winter, a sunny day, light breeze and it isn't the temperature, it is a feeling you get. I note the birds visiting my garden think so, too; a few are collecting nesting material. Back inside, although it is a work-day, I can push things aside for a moment and I have some pizza from last night and this bottle that I picked up and really want to try. That quiet, happy noise I hear is the sound of things coming together.
  
  This is under cork, the note made within an hour of opening, no decant. Scored as 'Excellent' on the CT scale, I almost gave this an 'Outstanding' rating.
  
  A hallmark of this vintage is deeper than usual colour. We have that here. Dark garnet. Much darker than usual for RdM.
  
  The nose is lovely Sangiovese. Dried herbs, a slight tarriness, sweet dark cherry and even a hint of something like ripe strawberry. You want to dive in. The palate has great length and intensity and the tannins are fine, supportive and ripe. The initial mouthfeel is almost velvety until the tannins come in. As I get older I get more and more interested in the texture and structure of wine, ahead of the fruit. This meets my needs.
  
  This is superb wine - some reviews have noted that this is very close to Brunello level and I agree, though there is a pleasing elegance that is less usual in Brunello (I say that as one who loves Brunello). My first thought was that it was like a very good quality Chianti Classico. This challenges the Canalicchio di Sopra for bargain Rosso of this vintage. Time for some Keith Jarrett and his strange vocalisations - 'nyaw'.

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3 Comments

• tward commented:

  8/26/22, 11:01 AM - Thanks for your great note. I'm jumping in on a couple bottles based on it (though you people sure do have your springtime at a strange time of the year).

• tward commented:

  9/9/22, 11:08 AM - Thanks for your reply on my CT board.
  
  I wish I'd have popped a bottle quicker, but just got around to receiving them the other day. The local retailer carrying it put it on sale at $26 USD but now shows $40 pre-arrival if I'd want to buy more.
  
  And I took a look at what is presumably your home territory of Lyneham and let's just say that it shouldn't be long now until a new commission is established to consider and make recommendations regarding the Limiting and Confiscation of Excess Wine Collections in Service of the People, being resolved that absent confiscation of Excess (as to be determined by the commission via as yet to be defined processes that shall be developed in conjunction with non-wine holding stakeholder communities) an annual Tax shall be due in regard to such Excess of Luxury and that an agency shall be properly funded such that wine collections are timely monitored, counted, assessed and controlled.

• Rote Kappelle commented:

  9/9/22, 6:10 PM - Comrade T, you have to move fast on bargains like this Fuligni. Here in the People's Republic of Lynehamsas we say 'the fastest gets the mostest and the rest get what their sniveling reactionary selves deserve' It may be a bit of a mouthful, but one can't deny it rings true. Where I live, on the Lynehamsas Flat Lands (quite close to Berkeley Breathed's 'Outlands' and 'Bloom County'), we are marked by three things - a tendency to extreme violence in our passions, a love of Black Oak Arkansas/Lynehamsas and adherence to the principle of organising. This leads to Fuligni flowing for the masses. But they must toil in return. Enjoy this wine, it narrowly beat the Canalicchio di Sopra Rosso as my fave budget Italian 2019.

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