Community Tasting Notes 12

• R.H. Likes this wine:

  August 8, 2022 - 4yrs since my last bottle. good depth developing here. a very good bottle. corkage at gio batta

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• don_quichotte wrote: flawed

  January 13, 2022 - Badly corked

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• Cailles wrote: flawed

  November 22, 2021 - 4 Rosé Unicorns & 6 Mature Bordeauxs: Taste-off between 4 of the most highly rated Rosés on CT. Clear win for the Blankiet Prince of Hearts 2018 (rated 96 pts). It took only seconds of everybody at the table to realize that this is the best Rosé in the lineup, and for all of us the best Rosé ever. So much substance, a luxurious structure, seductive, hedonistically and intellectually appealing. The Chateau d’Esclans Garrus 2019 (rated 93 pts) is made in the same style but just has much less of everything. The Lopez de Heredia Rosado Gran Reserva 2009 (rated 92) was more interesting than really good but that’s a question of style preference (if you like their oxidative whites, you will like this wine). Unfortunately, the Valentini Cerasuolo 2016 was corked. I probably drink one Rosé a year and that will likely not change after tasting these wines but that is a function of the Blankiet being impossible to source.
  
  TN: Badly corked. Style wise, this is close to the Lopez de Heredia with some oxidative notes, lots of vegetal, mineral and earthy notes.
  
  Glass: Conterno Sensory

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• sirpat00 wrote: flawed

  October 30, 2021 - Part of a small Best Rosés of the World line-up. Unfortunately tainted by cork. As this deteriorated quite rapidly with aeration, I only caught a brief glimpse of what this could have been - fresh linear fruit, oxidative dimensions more light red wine like in character than Rosé.

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• Jahull03 wrote:

  April 17, 2021 - Standout wine - uniquely intense floral/herbaceous/mineral boom (I’m not undecided on which word to use - it’s all three of those categories dialed up). This would stand up to a lot of foods - agree with wife who suggested that this is a “tasting menu wine”
  
  Unique and very good.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Rosé
• Producer Azienda Agricola Valentini
• Varietal Montepulciano
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Abruzzi
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo

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• In Cellars 329 (66%)
• Consumed 172 (34%)

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