Community Tasting Notes 14

• Toasty Oak Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 31, 2023 - 3/31/2023
  
  A cuvee no longer produced as of 2018, replaced by “I Palchi”
  
  My previous bottle I tasted was opened on 11/19/2021
  
  This bottle showed much better than the previous one. Aromatically similar... warm apricots tangerine, cut flowers and wet gravel. The palate was equally intense and displayed ample acidity. The finish was long and honeyed.
  
  Delicious and much better than my memory and my previous notes.
  
  This was my last bottle.

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• forceberry wrote: 89 points

  January 15, 2022 - This is a special bottling of Inama's Soave Foscarino - the Garganega grapes for this wine are sourced from a single vineyard on Monte Foscarino that produces exceptionally concentrated grapes. The wine is fermented and aged for 6 months in low-toast French oak barriques (25-30% new) followed by another 6 months of aging sur lie in stainless steel. 13% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Pale lemon-yellow color with faint lime-green highlights. The nose feels rich and heady with powerful and very expressive aromas of mirabelle plums, some poached pear, light floral notes, a little bit of creamy oak, a sweet hint of apple jam and a vague touch of sweet oak spice. The wine is broad, ripe and concentrated on the palate with a full body and rich flavors of juicy mirabelle plums and apricots, some sweet notes of apple jam, light creamy notes of oak, a little bit of almost green banana, floral hints of apple blossom and chamomile and a touch of stony minerality. The mouthfeel is oily and slightly viscous, but the moderately high acidity keeps the wine quite nicely in balance. The finish is ripe, juicy and concentrated with long and subtly sweetish flavors of mirabelle plums and apricots, some notes of plantain, a little bit of creamy oak, light sweet nuances of apple jam, a hint of woody spice and a floral touch of apple blossom.
  
  A rather huge and concentrated powerhouse of Soave, made in a style that is very impressive in its own right, but feeling a bit too weighty and clumsy for my preference. The wine never comes across as too ripe, the alcohol remains at quite modest levels and the wine shows balanced acidity, yet the overall feel is somehow a bit overdone. I guess the main culprit is oak; even though the wine isn't obviously oaky - at first I wasn't even sure if the wine had seen any new oak and noticed only the creamy notes suggesting oak aging on a more general level - I feel the oak tones only emphasize the concentrated, almost oily mouthfeel of the wine and accentuate the sweetness in the ripe fruit flavors. The overall impression is that there's an eminently high-quality wine underneath, but the oak influence takes it in a sort of bad direction - I feel if this wine was made in the same style as Foscarino, this would be so much better. This is a balanced and enjoyable Soave Classico in any case, but I feel there is potential for this wine to be even better than how it is now. I really hope the wine loses some of its baby fat as it ages.

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• Toasty Oak Likes this wine: 89 points

  November 19, 2021 - Light to medium gold in the glass.
  This is an intensely aromatic wine reminiscent of dried apricots, honey, walnut oil, week-old cut flowers and vanilla. The flavors are less intense, but the salinity and “minerality” come through a bit more. The wine is rich with sneaking acidity. Somehow it drops off mid-palate but comes back for a moderately long finish. It’s a beauty of a wine

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• olracx62 wrote: 89 points

  January 17, 2021 - pleasant and armonic garganega-based Soave (Lot cru), with notes of chamomile and white flowers. Poor acidity, seductive taste.

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• olracx62 wrote: 89 points

  September 5, 2020 - soave Vigneto du Lot is always a good choice, seductive with its chamomile notes and smoothed acidity. In a slow afternoon during this 14days lockdown, lokking into the day after

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• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer Inama
• Varietal Garganega
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Vigneto du Lot
• Country Italy
• Region Veneto
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Soave Classico

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• Consumed 66 (76%)

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