Community Tasting Notes 13

• ILarsen wrote: 93 points

  March 29, 2024 - Still very pleased about the wine - still a beautiful long aftertaste - we get lots of fruit - cherries, raspberries and cranberries - also getting Forrest floors, tobacco and chocolate- happy to stay at solid 93.

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• DBenke wrote: 69 points

  September 23, 2023 - Oxidized bottle from winery. Very disappointing

• Outplaying Likes this wine:

  April 24, 2022 - This is excellent and still youthful. Complex and the total Chianti package. I need to be buying all the Castell’in Villa I can find. That is the problem, though. It is hard to find here on the east coast.

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• Rywyine Likes this wine:

  May 25, 2021 - Very interesting Chianti Classico. Definitely one of the more unique.lighter on the fruit and stronger on the savory characteristics, unsurprisingly at this age. Almost like a hoisin sauce kind of funk. It’s tasty though. Plenty of tannin though the wine has a lovely mouth feel. Definitely one of the

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• Bob H wrote:

  September 21, 2020 - This is even be better than the Selvapiana Bucerchiale I just had. If possible, even more expansive on the palate, and slightly fuller-bodied as well.
  
  It opened with a little funk on the nose that quickly blew off, and you're left with about as complex of a nose as a Sangiovese will ever provide. Earthy red & black fruit with some sotto bosco scents in the mix, tonight this wine is the total Chianti package.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Castell'in Villa
• Varietal Sangiovese Blend
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Poggio delle Rose
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Chianti
• Appellation Chianti Classico DOCG

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• Pending Delivery 30 (16%)
• In Cellars 119 (63%)
• Consumed 39 (21%)

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