Popped in AM. Decanted 4 hours then back in bottle another slow ox few more hours and finally got to it after several other bottle tasting. Suffered in comparison to some high end napa cabs/ bordeaux. This wine is tannic. Need much more time to resolve. Many years likely. Some dark fruit, underbrush florsl component. Not very enjoyable now
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
Very elemental. Perfumed nose with crushed flowers, rose, cherry, palate is quite Volcanic, stony, iron and a heavy tannin note especially with air. Complexity is there although quite rustic.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Delicious after a 5-hour decant, and a great accompaniment to rib roast. The wine continued to open up at dinner and at the end, the tannins were quite assertive and drying. This wine has just entered its drinking window and could easily last another 25 years, perhaps more.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
Stunning Sagrantino with dark plummy notes, smoke, wild forest underbrush and shrooms but with a certain elegance; seamless, fine, powerful, long. Osteria Mozza w/B&B
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
This is beginning to drink very well but seems to have plenty of improvement ahead of it. Somewhat less rustic than the other Bea wines, this does have a slightly animalistic nose with briar fruit and wild herbs on the palate but the wine is more graceful and high-toned than the Pagliaro. A big, feral wine that will need to be paired appropriately. I absolutely love this.
Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.
12/7/2023 - Handy1 wrote: 92 Points
Popped in AM. Decanted 4 hours then back in bottle another slow ox few more hours and finally got to it after several other bottle tasting. Suffered in comparison to some high end napa cabs/ bordeaux. This wine is tannic. Need much more time to resolve. Many years likely. Some dark fruit, underbrush florsl component. Not very enjoyable now
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
10/20/2023 - T.E.D. wrote: 91 Points
Very elemental. Perfumed nose with crushed flowers, rose, cherry, palate is quite Volcanic, stony, iron and a heavy tannin note especially with air. Complexity is there although quite rustic.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/22/2023 - Swaggering Beaunie Likes this wine:
Delicious after a 5-hour decant, and a great accompaniment to rib roast. The wine continued to open up at dinner and at the end, the tannins were quite assertive and drying. This wine has just entered its drinking window and could easily last another 25 years, perhaps more.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
2/16/2023 - peternelson Likes this wine: 94 Points
Stunning Sagrantino with dark plummy notes, smoke, wild forest underbrush and shrooms but with a certain elegance; seamless, fine, powerful, long. Osteria Mozza w/B&B
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/19/2023 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:
This is beginning to drink very well but seems to have plenty of improvement ahead of it. Somewhat less rustic than the other Bea wines, this does have a slightly animalistic nose with briar fruit and wild herbs on the palate but the wine is more graceful and high-toned than the Pagliaro. A big, feral wine that will need to be paired appropriately. I absolutely love this.
3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3)