Community Tasting Notes 17

• Outplaying wrote:

  May 3, 2018 - We had this along with the 2013 and 2009. The hot vintage shows here, but I think the wine is pretty good, considering that. Dark fruits, brooding, but not raisiny. Bigger, heavier but still retains enough acidity to keep it from being flabby. Dark soil tones, tar, licorice and tobacco notes. Comes across slightly sweet in comparison to the others.

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• eboracum Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 10, 2014 - This is a very successful 2003 showing none of the cooked and candied notes common throughout France and Italy in that year. Colour is still a robust red with little bricking. The fruit was perhaps a bit sweeter and more ingratiating than in most vintages and the body fuller. I commented on a previous bottle two years ago that there was less acidity and tang than usual but I did not feel that with this bottle. The Fèlsina class is very much present. I reckon that there is plenty more life here. My last bottle, however, so I will not be able to test that.

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• RDAwine Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 15, 2013 - nice , smooth, drinking quite well, love c c r's,

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• toddcox2002 wrote: 87 points

  November 25, 2011 - Flat taste; heavy mushroom & earthy notes. some brightness from cherry. Will let decant and revisit

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• soyhead wrote: 90 points

  September 9, 2010 - Chianti Classico Tasting at PRIMA: nose - sweet oak, cranberry
  mouth - licorice, fruit punch, full bodied, seems a bit disjointed. good potential. i think this needs five more years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• Type Red
• Producer Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Chianti
• Appellation Chianti Classico DOCG

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• In Cellars 62 (32%)
• Consumed 133 (68%)

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