Community Tasting Notes 65

• Alessandro DC Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 17, 2023 - Paleo is a wine to be enjoyed both young and old. It ages wonderfully, as only Franc is able to.
  This 2005 was kind of p&p, only decanted for 30 min (I use a thin decanter).
  Then it opened up in while swirling the glasses for the next hour and a half.
  Nice, very nice. A wine of great balance. Starting to be in its sweet spot now I believe it will age gracefully another 10-15+ years.
  Beautiful touch of iodine and Mediterranean herbs gives the lift to the primary and secondary bouquet.
  After the nice capsicum gives space to the tertiary notes the wine gets interestingly deep and complex. Where leather leads trhu.
  One spare glass for the next day (stored cold overnight) brought the wine to 95 pts.
  Medium to long finsh. Dusty tannins.

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• cpoulos Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 26, 2023 - Really lovely and still very much alive. Sweet cherries, underbrush, balsam. Earthy tobacco. Fleshy and low in acid. So poised and elegant in the mouth, with a long, cocoa-dusted finish. no hard edges.

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• mflesh wrote:

  July 14, 2023 - Pretty much 100% Cab Franc. Not too shabby for a Friday afternoon! This wine is quite earthy. And by 'quite earthy' I mean a ton of earthiness. Lots of iodine, grilled meat, black pepper on the finish. Based on how this one developed, which shed some of that earthy baby fat and gained a little more dark black fruit, tar, and espresso bean, I think this wine may sort of be approaching a peak. The charred red campfire roasted fruit was a welcome note. In a sea of mostly Napa Valley wines, this one definitely stood out and certainly not in a bad way. There was a sweet and savory Cajun nut combination on the table, and I remembered thinking that this wine went oddly well with that mixture. I think this one probably has another 5 years or so, but only for those who appreciate the more earthy and nitrogenous side. Really tended to more of the medium bodied side of things and there's certainly nothing wrong with that

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• Bluespolo wrote: 95 points

  March 25, 2023 - Strepitoso mix di finezza elegante, potenza e lunghezza. Perfettamente maturo, scuro lucido, mora, mirtillo e piccoli frutti neri, sottobosco costiero, menta e resina di pino, cuoio e fave di cacao. Fluisce senza sforzo e senza asperità, complesso e strutturato. Tannino integrato, setoso e fitto; bella tensione e notevole lunghezza. Magnifica bottiglia da un annata non memorabile. Maturo senza decadenza: offrirà ancora molto per diversi anni a venire.

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• levicn Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 28, 2022 - 闻香是浓郁石墨气息，一点点香草，地中海香料，李子一类的果香，入口酸度中高，单宁紧涩，铺满口腔，酒液咸，石墨，泥土，红黑果香，非常旧世界的严肃风格。后段奶油，烤面包，余味草莓，面包吐司。复杂度与集中度兼具，没有明显的享乐主义元素，而是精准、严谨的旧世界风格。品丽珠的特征太明显了

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Le Macchiole
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation Paleo Rosso
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Toscana IGT
• UPC Code 8032700763055

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• In Cellars 371 (49%)
• Consumed 385 (50%)

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