Community Tasting Note

mjwstickings Likes this wine:

Monday, April 18, 2022 - Back when I reviewed the 2011, I called this wine "a bit odd," and "hardly distinct either regionally or varietally." "With all the heavy, sweet oak here, coming through in notes of caramel, vanilla, and spice, you wouldn't really think this is Tuscan wine... t's an untraditional wine from the start, a sort of inexpensive... 'Super Tuscan.' And yet it works pretty well, with notes of blackberry, blackcurrant, blueberry, and dark cherry, as well as an earthy-meaty-leathery-bretty quality, to balance the oakiness, along with enlivening acidity to counter the general heaviness." It's very much the same with the 2017, which showcases a tobacco note, has a lot of funky brett, and, with food, is fine overall.