Community Tasting Notes 1

• forceberry wrote: 92 points

  February 18, 2023 - 100% Sangiovese from the Vigna Grande cru, replanted in 2000 with a massal selection of Sangiovese from the Vigna Nocio cru. Fermented spontaneously in oak vats over a period of one week with maceration times extending for another week after the fermentation has ended. Pressed into old 500-liter Allier oak demi-muids, where the wine is aged for a year, then racked into 2500-liter Slavonian oak botti casks, where the wine is aged for another year. After aging for two years in oak, the wine is blended into concrete vats and left to settle for a few months. 14% alcohol.
  
  Youthful, moderately translucent cherry-red color. The nose feels youthful, a bit reticent and maybe slightly reduced with sweet-toned aromas of ripe black cherries, some salty liquorice candies, a little bit of gamey meat, light crunchy notes of red currants, a hint of tobacco, a touch of licorice root and a tiniest whiff of flatulent reduction. The wine feels youthful, sinewy and quite closed on the palate with a medium-to-moderately full body and dry flavors of tart dark and red berries, some gravelly mineral tones, a little bit of crunchy redcurrant, light ferrous notes of blood, a hint of tobacco and a touch of brambly raspberry. The high acidity and ample and quite grippy yet not tough tannins both contribute to the rather tightly-knit structure of the wine. The finish is dry, firm and quite grippy with a long yet somewhat closed aftertaste of raspberries and crunchy redcurrants, some stony mineral tones, a little bit of licorice, light sanguine nuances, a hint of game and a touch of sour cherry bitterness.
  
  A firm, serious and structure-driven single-vineyard Vino Nobile that feels a bit too young for its own good. This impressively stern and structured wine feels still very youthful, but it also seems to suffer from a little bit of reduction, which makes the wine appear somewhat closed and understated. Tasting this side-by-side with Boscarelli's 2016 Vino Nobile Riserva, they both seem very similar to each other, but the Riserva bottling is just more open and expressive, while this feels somewhat muted in comparison - as did Boscarelli's 2016 Il Nocio as well. Most likely both this wine and Il Nocio will evolve and improve with bottle age, but that is going to take quite a bit of time. It is entirely possible that at some point this wine (and Il Nocio) will be better than the Vino Nobile Riserva, but most likely it is going to take another 15-20 years. Although all the three wines call for additional aging, but I'd say the Riserva bottling is best for earlier consumption while these single-vineyard bottlings are yet to reach their drinking window. Good stuff all the same. Maybe still not worth the 50€, though.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Boscarelli
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Costa Grande
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montepulciano
• Appellation Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

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• In Cellars 58 (77%)
• Consumed 17 (23%)

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