4/9/2017 - Zocc wrote:

A decent rose. But, many California Rose are better in this price range.

5/16/2010 - rath44 wrote:

Drank in Italy with chingale, percino cheese and bread at Villa overlooking the Tuscan hills. Wine was okay but with all the aforementioned it was great!!

3/23/2010 - anonymoose12345 wrote:

Very basic. Cherry, slightly tannic but not overbearing, medium bodied, short finish. Nothing very memorable. Maybe I'd like it better if I had some iberico jamon to go with it. Who am I kidding...I'd pair motor oil with jamon and rate it a 99. Mmmmm jamon.

3/27/2010 - pinotwinelover wrote:

Very enjoyable, a bit of oak that burns off, cherry with dusty tannins. If you don't drink Barolos often this is a good place to start.

3/23/2010 - ArntErik Does not like this wine:

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Is there something wrong with us?

It is as though we have tasted an entirely different wine than the previous tasters. We found it to have the usual cheapo wine yeasty smell up front (forgot to mention it spent 90 minutes in decanter prior to tasting) and then some remotely interesting smells of raisins, prunes, and bitter cherries. We searched for the vanilla you got Niklas; but no, seems you got it all...

On the palate it had a predominant bitter almonds feeling, and was slightly metallic and hollow. «It'll grow on us with the food» I declared, as we put the Madrid spaghetti carbonara on the table (yes, Madrid, our son-in-law is Madridian (is there such a word? Maybe Madriscan?) and he brought us the bacon. This is commonly referred to as Fusion cuisine).

Surprisingly, the food did nothing for the wine. Quite the disappointment as can be gathered from the above. (Still, wine is a bit like sex someone said; even so-so sex is better than no sex. Same goes for wine, no!?)
Hmm, wonder if this TN will be banned...

3/20/2010 - ArntErik Likes this wine:

An hour in decanter. Our first Taurasi, and a very nice acquaintance it was. Did not look like - or taste like an - 11 years old wine, so years of cellar potential yet. (The cork had to be removed in 2 parts though). On the nose very modest wood, and some licorice, among other undefinable things. A very well built wine. It was - in the words of Cosmo Kramer - a circus in your mouth, but we were having trouble defining exactly what we tasted. Quite tannic, but pleasant and round. Absolutely great with the pizza margherita Iren made as so often on Saturdays. Iren declared it's not necessarily her kind of wine, but still gave it 88, whereas I gave it 90. In any case, Taurasi is definitely something that will get further attention in the future, whatever she says...

3/3/2010 - NiklasW Likes this wine:

Decanted for about an hour. A dark red still looking quite young. A blast of barnyard on the nose initially, with a slight hint of VA, some chocolatey moccha notes, lots of plum, yum! On the palate, a nice sweetness, lots of tannins, really upfront and in your face at this point, but very delicious. This definitely beats the 2001 I had a few weeks ago! 50+5+13+17+8=93

3/5/2010 - ArntErik wrote:

Half hour in decanter. Not enough; had a vail of rawness that disappeared after a while in the glass. Hints of pencil and blackberry on the nose. Surprisingly light and one-dimensional on the palate, its smell is better than its taste. «Hollow» as Iren put it. Drank with pizza margherita.