Community Tasting Note

John Dunlap wrote:

Saturday, October 27, 2012 - Poured as part of the K&L Italian wine tasting. Decanted and allowed to breath for nearly five hours. Nice to compare this wine against the 2007 Casanova di Neri TN BdM that preceded this wine at the tasting. (New world vs. old world styles; '07 vs. '06, and non-riserva vs. riserva). The Capanna possess good dark color. Although both wines are rich, the Capannna has a tighter bandwidth of flavors probably reflecting their "old world" style. E.g., I noticed more sour cherry and plum in this wine, but less of the outright floral-ness and dark berry flavors of the '07 Casanova. Neither right nor wrong, just a matter of styles, vintages, riserva barrel aging, etc. Anyway, this is a well structured wine. Good fruit. Nice medium tannins; not at all hot. Alcohol is 15 percent. $69.99 a bottle. Wine Enthusiast rated this wine 96 points - just one point below the Casanova, which from my perspective is qualitatively and statistically meaningless. Really quite nice.

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