Tonight's experience was consistent with my tasting notes of a year ago when I wrote:
"At nineteen (now twenty) years of age, this is at the apex of its drinking window but not likely to improve with further cellaring, rather more likely to start to diminish from here forward. '
"Dark, deep, blackish-ruby colored, full bodied with firm backbone of bold, intense black berry and ripe plum fruits, notes of black pepper, hints of smoke, leather and subtle vanilla with a long lingering supple tannin finish."
At nineteen years of age, this is at the apex of its drinking window but not likely to improve with further cellaring, rather more likely to start to diminish from here forward. Great starting wine with caprese and starters, dark, deep, blackish-ruby colored, full bodied with firm backbone of bold, intense black berry and ripe plum fruits, notes of black pepper, hints of smoke, leather and subtle vanilla with a long lingering supple tannin finish.
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9/25/2019 - rmcnees wrote: 90 Points
Tonight's experience was consistent with my tasting notes of a year ago when I wrote:
"At nineteen (now twenty) years of age, this is at the apex of its drinking window but not likely to improve with further cellaring, rather more likely to start to diminish from here forward. '
"Dark, deep, blackish-ruby colored, full bodied with firm backbone of bold, intense black berry and ripe plum fruits, notes of black pepper, hints of smoke, leather and subtle vanilla with a long lingering supple tannin finish."
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2019/09/masciarelli-montepulciano-dabruzzo.html
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8/17/2018 - rmcnees wrote: 90 Points
At nineteen years of age, this is at the apex of its drinking window but not likely to improve with further cellaring, rather more likely to start to diminish from here forward. Great starting wine with caprese and starters, dark, deep, blackish-ruby colored, full bodied with firm backbone of bold, intense black berry and ripe plum fruits, notes of black pepper, hints of smoke, leather and subtle vanilla with a long lingering supple tannin finish.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2018/08/italian-village-chicago-for-reliable.html
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5/25/2008 - David J Cooper wrote:
Sadly this usually fantastic wine was corked. Still lot's of Sangiovese fruit but tainted by TCA.
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