Still very pleased about the wine - still a beautiful long aftertaste - we get lots of fruit - cherries, raspberries and cranberries - also getting Forrest floors, tobacco and chocolate- happy to stay at solid 93.
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This is excellent and still youthful. Complex and the total Chianti package. I need to be buying all the Castell’in Villa I can find. That is the problem, though. It is hard to find here on the east coast.
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Very interesting Chianti Classico. Definitely one of the more unique.lighter on the fruit and stronger on the savory characteristics, unsurprisingly at this age. Almost like a hoisin sauce kind of funk. It’s tasty though. Plenty of tannin though the wine has a lovely mouth feel. Definitely one of the
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This is even be better than the Selvapiana Bucerchiale I just had. If possible, even more expansive on the palate, and slightly fuller-bodied as well.
It opened with a little funk on the nose that quickly blew off, and you're left with about as complex of a nose as a Sangiovese will ever provide. Earthy red & black fruit with some sotto bosco scents in the mix, tonight this wine is the total Chianti package.
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3/29/2024 - ILarsen wrote: 93 Points
Still very pleased about the wine - still a beautiful long aftertaste - we get lots of fruit - cherries, raspberries and cranberries - also getting Forrest floors, tobacco and chocolate- happy to stay at solid 93.
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9/23/2023 - DBenke wrote: 69 Points
Oxidized bottle from winery. Very disappointing
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4/24/2022 - Outplaying Likes this wine:
This is excellent and still youthful. Complex and the total Chianti package. I need to be buying all the Castell’in Villa I can find. That is the problem, though. It is hard to find here on the east coast.
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5/25/2021 - Rywyine Likes this wine:
Very interesting Chianti Classico. Definitely one of the more unique.lighter on the fruit and stronger on the savory characteristics, unsurprisingly at this age. Almost like a hoisin sauce kind of funk. It’s tasty though. Plenty of tannin though the wine has a lovely mouth feel. Definitely one of the
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9/21/2020 - Bob H wrote:
This is even be better than the Selvapiana Bucerchiale I just had. If possible, even more expansive on the palate, and slightly fuller-bodied as well.
It opened with a little funk on the nose that quickly blew off, and you're left with about as complex of a nose as a Sangiovese will ever provide. Earthy red & black fruit with some sotto bosco scents in the mix, tonight this wine is the total Chianti package.
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