Community Tasting Notes 39

• mclanew Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 1, 2024 - Slow ox 3 hours. Black currant, cigar box, leather and herbs come through. Full bodied, still youthful with good acidity and length. Still has many years ahead.

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• mclanew Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 25, 2023 - Slow ox 30 minutes. This is tightly wound, full bodied, still quite youthful and a little austere. Black fruit, tobacco weed, woodsmoke and herbs come through. Long finish. This will have a long life ahead but I would let it age a bit longer. A longer decant would help too.

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• sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 11, 2023 - One off ($75, with a discount) from Napa cellarage operation #2. On the nose and palate, fairly vibrant notes of black cherries, mixed and primarily dark berries, anise, leather, funky earthiness, mixed ground spice, dark florals and more traditional Tuscan notes of smoke and cedar. Medium dark purple, medium+ bodied, medium to thick legs. Silky, medium and well-integrated tannins, likewise integrated medium- acidity, no heat. Excellent complexity, VG+ intensity and persistence. This came out of the bottle good to go, with a very pleasant and distinct Bordelaisian funkiness that gave it an almost baby Latour feel, so much so that even with the Tuscan notes, this still felt more BDX than Tuscany, with the sangio component playing the role of CF. Elegant, balanced, and sophisticated but not at the expense of power, this cuvee has it all, heading an almost inconceivably strong class of BDX-based IGTs around this price point including Saffredi, Grattamaco, Tua Rita Giusto Notri, LMPG, and not quite as good, but cheaper, Valadorna and Rocco Buriano. This lost the funkiness on night #2, but otherwise, remained completely on point, but lost just a bit of focus on night #3, perhaps because I didn’t decant and there was a fair amount of sediment in the last glass (96-7+ night 1, 96 night 2, 94 night 3) but was still highly pleasurable. Equally fabulous on its own as with octopus Bolognese and pizza. Feels bang on in its drinking window, but also like it has 5-10+ Years of really great drinking left with outstanding structure well integrated but still intact. Kind of wish I bought more, but have so many bottles of the others named above coming out of the walls that you probably shouldn’t feel too sorry for me for not having done so. Resoundingly recommended.

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• Thomas123 wrote: flawed

  December 10, 2022 - Corked ☹️

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• joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 points

  May 20, 2022 - Big, ripe and powerful wine, with really bright acidity and finely structured, making this quite pretty. Very good.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Castello dei Rampolla
• Varietal SuperTuscan Blend
• Designation Sammarco
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT
• UPC Codes 8032738130010, 9770009435813

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• In Cellars 734 (55%)
• Consumed 593 (44%)

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