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Manage Subscriptions2007 Grifalco Aglianico del Vulture Bosco Del Falco
Aglianico
- Italy
- Basilicata
- Aglianico del Vulture
Community Tasting Notes 24
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OldwineinVT Likes this wine: 90 points
December 25, 2022 - Garagiste selection 14% ABV
Color: deep dark purple with viscous legs
Nose: medium/full intensity. Complex rich dried fruits and berries. Some leather and smoke. Continued to open in the glass... wonderful evolution!
Body/flavor: Medium/full body; lots of dried fruit, minerality, and competing notes of dark fruit preserves. Well balanced... quiet tannins and alcohol.
Aftertaste: Lingering finish.
Oh did it go well with roast turkey. Probably at or just beyond its peak, so recommend drinking now! -
Neurowine1 Does not like this wine:
November 3, 2022 - Last one of this. I suppose I like this one a bit more than the bottle i had last year (in the sense that it is a big more endowed with dark fruits) but boy is this a rustic/masculine wine. Teeth rattling tannins, tar, tobacco, tea leaves, and black dirt. This doesnt give a lot of pleasure.
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jayw wrote:
December 12, 2021 - Enticing nose of chocolate-mocha-earth, but the palate gives less pleasure, with quite a bit of tannic grip. Lots of Anglianico tar and muted cherry fruit. A lot of substance to this wine, but it tastes out of balance and I don't think it is likely to improve.
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Neurowine1 Does not like this wine:
May 21, 2021 - 7 years in the box. I have amassed a small ocean of aglianico that I need to start getting in to. Muted nose of dark fruits and tar. In the mouth the overwhelming impression is one of rusticity. Chewy, teeth-staining, bulls blood sort of wine. Leather, decaying leaves, tar, and a hint (just a hint) of black cherry. Very drying. Masculine. This wine would taste great in some ancient cellar on a cold gray night at a farm in Basiliicata; here in Silicon Valley on a lovely Friday evening, it just tastes dirty and kinda old. I think Rimmerman oversold this one.
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UpfromtheCellar wrote: 90 points
April 15, 2021 - Big powerful, a little rustic with nice grip. Although this wine is 14 years on (and calmed down a bit) it still has ageing potential. I didn't find any of the over ripe or port like tendencies others wrote about but the older this wine gets the more convinced I am that it will never be anything other than "rustic" (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).
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By Ian D'Agata
Jan-14, IWC Issue #173, 1/1/2014 (link)(Grifalco Bosco del Falco Aglianico del Vulture) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2007
- Type Red
- Producer Grifalco
- Varietal Aglianico
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Bosco Del Falco
- Country Italy
- Region Basilicata
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- Appellation Aglianico del Vulture
- UPC Code 8033673753074
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- Pending Delivery 6 (2%)
- In Cellars 91 (33%)
- Consumed 181 (65%)
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