Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, November 19, 2016 - Slightly translucent dark cherry color with a darker blackcurrant hue. Brooding and quite spicy nose with aromas of tart red berries, sour cherries, some licorice and surprisingly little of oak character. Full-bodied and concentrated on the palate with moderately high acidity, but surprisingly mellow tannins that only give a bit of firmness to the wine. Quite intense yet balanced flavors of blackcurrant-driven dark berries, sour cherries, some dired herbs, a little bit of peppery spice bitterness, a hint of spicy oak and a touch of blackberry marmalade. The long finish feels more tannic and grippy with more emphasis on the peppery spice and bitterness and lighter notes of sour cherries and ripe dark berries.

Although the wine feels quite ripe, the ripeness isn't here the main thing, but instead brightness, focus and freshness. Compared to some previous Tignanellos I've had, this is a surprisingly fresh and sophisticated effort that is not about extracted ripe fruit and overdone oak. Overall the wine feels less like a traditional Super-Tuscan and more like a well-made modern Chianti Classico with a little bit of Super-Tuscan twist. Overall the wine is still a baby and I wouldn't think of opening one until it is at least 10 years old. I must say I was a bit surprised by the lack of tannic grip; even though I like this more delicate style of Tignanello more, I've always loved that good tannic bite the Tignanellos have - except for this. I'm not so sure whether this wine will be so ageworthy as the more tannic Tignanellos due to its lighter tannins. Whatever the case may be, this is still a nice example of modern Tuscan red.

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