Community Tasting Notes 6

• Papies wrote: 90 points

  August 10, 2013 - 1993 Horizontal - The Papies at year 20! (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): We did not decant (didn’t have the time) and definitely the wine liked a bit of aeration to open up. Dark in colour still, dense. Quite a lot of fruit at times with burnt notes light port feel on the nose. The palate is full of ripe fruit still and we wonder if 93 was such a hot year in Tuscany. In general this is a very enjoyable wine however it has not been able to shed the abuses (still a lot of lactic notes on the nose for example) of both extraction and over-abuse of oak in its elevage. Clearly this was supertuscan experimentation time and more of everything was better….. The wine has not evolved much and maybe this goes to show that time/age is not always a helping hand neither can it provide false hope that the overpaid and overrated wine one bought didn’t taste up to potential at year 9 because it needs more aging. Spanish modernist winemakers should pay attention here. The good news is that this still has a lot of life in it and is not dry at all. 90-91 from us.

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• arslanas Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 25, 2013 - the only negative thing about this wine was the relatively short finish. otherwise it has all the characteristics of a mature wine that appeals to me: still lots of red fruit on the nose, earthy notes with mushroom and leather. wonderful balance, all the tannins well integrated. at its peak, drink sooner than later

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• soyhead wrote: 91 points

  January 26, 2011 - nose - of a mature wine, a touch like sherry, smoky, sweet oak
  mouth - nicely delineated black fruit flavors, with generous back end richness, good acidity, long dry finish. drinking very well at this time.

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• DRomulous wrote: 98 points

  October 15, 2009 - This is an amazing wine.

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• DRomulous wrote:

  September 26, 2009 - outstanding.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1993
• Type Red
• Producer Querciabella
• Varietal SuperTuscan Blend
• Designation Camartina
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT

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• In Cellars 17 (49%)
• Consumed 18 (51%)

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