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• Magnum PI Does not like this wine: 75 points

  December 4, 2023 - This is a difficult wine to analyze. Both the nose and the mid-palate were all over the place. I drank this wine with spaghetti, red sauce, undecanted. I am not about 90 minutes into the bottle. The bottle initially had a pleasant nose of slight chocolate, prominent plum, and not much on the light palate. I found that over the first hour, the notes were constantly evolving, and the mid-palate was gaining weight. A hint of smoke, or no, maybe some cardamom, with emerging tar. Finally, I thought the wine was finding it's identify. Just as quickly as it was starting to come together, the wine shifted into an awkward sort of amalgam of overly acidic puckering something. This wine was never really harmonious or charming, and ask I type this, I sense the fruit is dropping out. For me, this bottle doesn't work on any level.

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• sfwinelover1 wrote: 88 points

  July 16, 2020 - Bottle 3 of 4. Still not seeing what others do in this, BUT 1) it does improve with air, and 2) like many Italian wines, it is better with food. I feel just a bit more kindly to this than I did with the bottle I previously reviewed, there is a place in the world for $14 quaffing wines and you can have a decent experience with this with the right food (mostly pasta or pizza), otherwise, meh.

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• repoper wrote: 92 points

  July 13, 2020 - POP. Poured a small glass. At first I didn’t pay attention As I was prepping dinner. Well it sat in the glass for an hour or so and when I came back to it, it is rocking. A bramble nose is dusty deep red purplish fruit with a sweet top note. What a beautiful mouthful sweet fruit with a nice burst of acidity to frame it and make your taste buds dance. The fruit is much more restrained than earlier bottles. I really like this a lot. Hmm this is the best bottle by far. Tonight it’s in a great spot. Wish I had bought more at this is a fantastic every day wine especially for food on the grill. 💥💥

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• Swaggering Beaunie wrote:

  July 8, 2020 - My wife opened this on the 8th and drank a glass, then recorked it and put it into the fridge. We opened it today (the 11th) to see if it was good, and it had totally gone off...undrinkable. So if you have this one, and open a bottle, drink all of it that day.

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• qrrkeen Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 8, 2020 - Did not decant. Color on the orange side of ruby red. First taste: So spicy it feels effervescent, more mid-range fruit on the second night than the first. Adequate nose. Lingering tannins. Would be interesting to see how it fares in a couple of years, but it probably won't last that long in my cellar. A hugely good deal from Garagiste.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2013
• Type Red
• Producer Tenuta Vitalonga
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Terra di Confine
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Umbria
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Umbria

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• In Cellars 148 (32%)
• Consumed 321 (68%)

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