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1998 Castello dei Rampolla Vigna d'Alceo
Red Bordeaux Blend
- Italy
- Tuscany
- Toscana IGT
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Community Tasting Notes 22
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liber Likes this wine: 93 points
April 29, 2024 - 5th of 6, decanted an hour, perfect lel, cork third stained, as last bottle noted Jan 23, fine drive and layering even some unresolved tannin on exit, bright almost bramble and liquorice component (?Petit Verdot at c.15%, I seem to recall), limited upside, 12+ years. F+ (18).....attractive if smaller scaled than 97.
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liber Likes this wine: 93 points
January 25, 2023 - 4th of 6, decanted 15 minutes, perfect level, cork quarter stained, as last Jan's bottle though tannins on exit seemed better integrated, as ever fine line and length and a relative ease of fruit expression unusual in Italian wine, plateau which compared with French tend to be more brittle/4 square, 10 years. F+ (18).
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liber Likes this wine: 93 points
January 18, 2022 - 3rd of 6, decanted 15 minutes, perfect cork and level, back on form of my 15 bottle if with more volume to the fruit, beguiling and complex flavours, youthful robe still, only caution is drying tannins on exit particularly in last glass (as if fruit intensity fading v tannins), upside maybe, needs watching. F+ (18).
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Dionysos 1920 wrote: 88 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.
1998 : couleur et nez plus évolués que le 1996 mais la bouche est plus équilibrée. Comme le 1996, cette bouteille était sans aucun doute meilleure il y a quelques années. -
querilant Likes this wine: 94 points
April 10, 2021 - Wow... Excellent super tuscan from this great house. Cabernet blend. 1998 not the best year in Tuscany and than being able to produce such a wine, which is not even over its peak. Two hours decant. Garnet with very little browning. Dark fruit in the nose. So we'll balanced after all these years. 94 points
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By Antonio Galloni
Castello dei Rampolla d’Alceo – A Complete Retrospective 1996-2011 (Dec 2013) (link)(Castello Dei Rampolla Vigna D'alceo) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Daniel Thomases
July/August 2000, IWC Issue #91 (link)(Castello dei Rampolla La Vigna d'Alceo Toscano Rosso) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Lyle Fass
5/22/2005 (link)(Castello dei Rampolla "Vigna d'Alceo") Reminds the most of Bordeaux of any other of the Cabernet based Super Tuscans. Maybe it has something to do with the Petit Verdot. But it's Tuscan personality is there in spades. Big pure nose of cassis and violets with some spicey oak. Great density on the palate and super-structure. Palate-soaking fruit.
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By Lyle Fass
1/30/2003 (link)(Castello dei Rampolla "Vigna d'Alceo") Stunning nose out of the gates. Leather, floral, sandalwood, dried cherries. Amazingly aromatic. The nose continues to gain fullness and complexity through aeration. Tuscan terroir shining through on the nose. A gaminess also appears. Thick and lightly viscous in texture. Silky sand-like tannins. Unbelievable in the mouth. Fiercely concentrated but so supple in texture. Incredibly long detailed finish. A rush of fruit concentrate just clamps down and soaks your palate. Tannins are there but so ripe.This is amazing juice.This also retains that elegant restraint that only top wines show.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1998
- Type Red
- Producer Castello dei Rampolla
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation Vigna d'Alceo
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Italy
- Region Tuscany
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Toscana IGT
- UPC Code 8032738130027
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 260 (56%)
- Consumed 201 (44%)
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