Community Tasting Notes 5

• Motz wrote: 96 points

  October 31, 2022 - Landmark Occasion - Five Wines in Four Days: Tasted over two days, on the first paired with an Iberico Pork Chop, and prior to the same vintage Margaux and Cantenac Brown. On the second, alongside the Cantenac Brown.
  
  These two days followed the two days spent with the 2018 Domaine de Saint-Guirons and Domaine de Chevalier.
  
  This opens with a BANG! I kid you not! Immediate impression of varietal purity and inflection-changing interplay! Blue and black berries, dark berry liqueurs, muddled flower petals, savory herbs (rosemary, marjoram, bay, sage, lavender) out the wazoo (neither an eloquent or technical description, I know), with wintergreen, mint, and eucalyptus top notes, 'sweet' pipe tobacco, and wholly compelling Tuscan terroir. The perfumed waves this delivered bend my mind as I write this.
  
  Very few have ever accused young high quality Tuscan wines of balance. This offering is. Judicious extraction, moderate oak treatment, in-check alcohol, particularly relative to the wine's thundering substance, while featuring ridiculously appealing velvet textures. This wine brings it! Want to know what you substance really looks like? Check this out and pass on the '18 DdC! When this enters early maturity, the DdC will be on its death bed...or dead.
  
  For all its riveting yet delicate power on the first day, it came to life on the second. Berries, herbs, particularly lavender, wintergreen, and eucalyptus, along with commanding, open-air olive market perfume, spilled from the glass. Whereas many Tuscan offerings turn somewhat muddled after being open for 24 hours, this held precise form, with incredible cut and lift! Indeed, the amalgam of perfume, substance, and tension will remain with me a long while.
  
  As for cellaring potential, I would not hesitate to hold bottles for at least a decade. Likely to peak roundabout 2040. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS: A) Decant for at least four hours, if drinking over the next several years. B) Tanninphobes, avoid this at all costs, through at least 2030. C) Air brings out the perfume, balance, lift...and the velvet gloved iron fist (tannins). 95-96.

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• Dionysos 1920 wrote: 89 points

  September 5, 2021 - Castello dei Rampolla, d’Alceo, dégustation verticale | Caratello | 5 septembre 2021 | Dolder, Zürich
  Dégustation verticale de 10 millésimes de « d’Alceo » du Castello dei Rampola (Vigna d’Alceo jusqu’en 1998). Globalement, une très belle dégustation pour ce vin phare du domaine (assemblage de 85% de Cabernet Sauvignon et de 15% de Petit Verdot). Si les millésimes 1996, 1998 et 2000 étaient un peu trop évolués pour moi, les 2006 et 2010 étaient absolument magiques. Bonnes notes également pour les 2015 et 2016 qui sont promis à un très bel avenir. Je suis par contre un peu plus sceptique sur les 2003, 2008 et 2014 qui ne m’ont pas véritablement emballé.
  2014 : couleur violacée, encore un peu vert, âpre, manque de fruit et d’équilibre, tanins dominants, je ne suis clairement pas convaincu par ce vin que je n’ai manifestement pas compris.

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• MM29 wrote: 90 points

  November 20, 2020 - Die besten Alceo singen nach 15 Jahren plus...keine gute Idee, diesen jetzt zu öffnen..natürlich geniessbar jetzt, aber wenn du weisst was da noch kommt und für diesen Preis, unbedingt warten

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• BigGDaddy wrote:

  May 3, 2020 - This needs time. Even after 8 hours in was closed and its brettiness did not dissipate. For $100 I expected much better. But I will keep for 5 more years. I think finding a good 2014 in Tuscany is difficult.

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• sburtt Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 13, 2019 - I was told 2014 in Tuscany was to avoid, but here you really can feel magic. The production was more than halved by the harsh selection due to rain, but what is left is a beautiful perfumed focused wine. Drunk from a bottled opened more than 24 hours before, the tannin was gentle and very much a wine you can approach now, even though I would consider cellaring 3-5 years at least. Great wine

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Castello dei Rampolla
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation d'Alceo
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT
• UPC Code 8032738130027

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• Pending Delivery 12 (3%)
• In Cellars 253 (74%)
• Consumed 79 (23%)

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