2005 Pietro Zardini Valpolicella Superiore

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  6/27/2019 - HitAnyKey wrote:

  Finally drank our last bottle of this, and it still has quite good structure and body. Even maintained quality over the course of 3 or 4 days with being vacu-vin'd in the fridge each time. No specific notes taken, other than that it had good amounts of dark berry fruit tones combined with the earthy notes that come from it's age.

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  12/20/2011 - jsherdc wrote: 89 Points

  Interesting tobacco, which disappears after using the vinturi. Smooth berry flavor.

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  8/21/2010 - pinoteer wrote: 88 Points

  Somewhat funkified, which took some time to blow off. Opened another bottle during the interim. Later, I was able to salvage the first bottle.

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  12/17/2009 - Bluedevil99 wrote:

  Had this awhile back so I won't score it, but was impressed. Lively plum and blue fruit balance the raisin on the front end of the palate, with nice transition to leather and light earth. Really all about the front end but there's definitely enough on the midpalate and finish to keep it from feeling hollow. At around $20, fantastic QPR, particularly given how much Amarones and even Valpolicella Superiore from major producers tend to be marked up in the U.S. If memory serves I'd have scored this 90+.

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  8/7/2009 - RDHudak wrote: 92 Points

  Color: Beautiful medium to darker red. Nose: Definite aromas of various fruit and some wood. Fruits consisted of blue, red and some dark fruits including oddly enough, apple and certainly blueberry. Taste: Very smooth and velvety flavors of fruit, light leather and very nicely integrated oak. Some light flavors of licorice as well. Nice acidity and very well balanced with fine tannins that sneak up on the end. Medium length finish. Easily stood up to the lasagna I had. Very nice red and probably the best Italian I have had. 91-92, but I did just pop and pour. I think decanting may have helped.

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