Community Tasting Notes 15

• viniferatu Likes this wine:

  December 16, 2023 - Immensely complex on the nose: cooked red and black fruits, paprika and sweet red pepper jelly, dried flowers, licorice, dark chocolate... thick and unctuous on the palate, borderline syrupy, but it is not without balance and freshness. The finish is extraordinary and features a gorgeous lengthy note of cocoa powder. Very interesting stuff. Will be worth following many more years. This will be best when paired carefully.

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• paujokal Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 22, 2023 - Slow to open. Heavy fennel early taste. After 2.5 hr decant, everything came together for an extraordinary wine.

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• Dibbs Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 10, 2021 - Second bottle, about a year part. This came across a bit too heavy and sweet, next to the Sassicaia and Salon. Probably needs to be consumed by itself for better pleasure like the previous note.

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• erto Likes this wine: 97 points

  November 1, 2021 - pop and pour with a wild boar ragu. great pairing.

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• jshufelt wrote: 95 points

  October 27, 2021 - Decanted 90 minutes before service. In the glass, 80% maroon, 20% auburn. On the nose, blueberries, graphite, a hint of cinnamon, and a reductive note of prune. On the palate, what a tease - initially, a heavy, almost port-like attack, and at about the point where you're getting frustrated because port is not what you wanted with dinner, a hard turn away to an incredibly silky palate and a riot of herbal notes, led by parsley. After that head fake, in come the stone fruits and dark fruits (plums, blueberries) with a long finish (and again, that note of port). Still some assertive tannins at the end, so I suspect there's more to this story. What an interesting wine.

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• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Giuseppe Quintarelli
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Cabernet Alzero
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Veneto
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Veneto IGT

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• In Cellars 414 (61%)
• Consumed 260 (39%)

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