Community Tasting Notes 93

• cvst Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 17, 2024 - Beautiful and mature bouquet tonight. Ripe red cherry, lingon berry, iodine, limestone, autumn leaves and wet soil. Lingering tannins, good grip and well balanced. Sadly my last bottle of this vintage

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• Evanbdavis Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 2, 2024 - Mature, sappy nose of roasted shiitake, truffle, star anise, black cherry, blackberry, fresh fig. The fruit is sweet and lush, tannins are firm but tender. Very long finish, a bit of reduction and tar.

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• Vinnut Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 1, 2023 - Deep dark reddish-purple in color with minor clearing at the edges. Full, fragrant & attractive nose of mature, ripe fruit aromas of cherries, blackberries & plums with overtones of earthy/dusty & some floral notes, herbs, minerals, leather, olive notes, anise & a hint of cedar in the background. Full bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, mature, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, blueberries & plums with spices, minerals, iron, cocoa & a hint of cedar. Long lingering finish. Drinks quite well with decanting & airing but at 26 years of age it is close to or at its peak of development although it may hold here for a few more years. Fill was mid-neck; cork stained only on bottom & intact.

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• canan wrote: 93 points

  December 21, 2022 - Excellent and mature but still with a touch of fruit left. Good definition of age with mushrooms and forest floor / wet leaves.

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• pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 23, 2022 - Recent purchase of a few 95s and 97s out of curiosity and without much expectations. The Sangiovese we drink is almost exclusively Brunello, and with very, very few exceptions at the top end it’s a wine I like to drink within 15 years even for the best vintages since the 90s as it picks up oxidative notes beyond that.I was always assuming that it must also have to do with very ripe fruit and too oxidative wine making approach in Montalcino in recent times as I have had quite a few BdMs from the 70s and they show no such issues even at age 50.
  While the 97 Fontalloro is considerably richer than the lean 95, and upon opening presents a slightly oxidative whiff on the nose, this blows away with some air and you get a nicely balanced medium bodied Sangiovese, again with well judged and integrated acidity and freshness. While it’s clearly riper than the 95 it’s nowhere near the ripeness of some of the big and warm (Brunello) vintages of the last 20 years. Still will drink my other bottles rather sooner than later as this at or slightly past peak and can only go down from here in my eyes.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1997
• Type Red
• Producer Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation Fontalloro
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT
• UPC Codes 607531180319, 607531180395, 827772200342

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• Pending Delivery 12 (1%)
• In Cellars 698 (54%)
• Consumed 594 (46%)

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