2009 Bertani Secco-Bertani

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 86.5 points

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  10/4/2015 - MBusk Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Some meaty and dried flower notes on the nose, which promises a bit more than the palate can deliver. The flavor palette is classically Italian, moderately savory, with cured meat notes and a pleasant bitterness. Still, the underyling fruit is a bit thin, leading to a rather hollow mid-palate and a modest finish. Ripasso should split the difference between Valpolicella and Amarone, with some of the liveliness of the former and some of the richness and punch of the latter, but this had none of the luxuriousness I was hoping for. For $19 retail, there are much better Ripassos (and much better Chianti Classicos) out there.

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  10/22/2014 - ManuKey Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Un vin générique, rien qui accroche mais rien qui le fait se démarquer... On a mieux pour le prix.

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  9/28/2014 - Motz wrote: 87 Points

  A nice Ripasso, good flavors, very standard. Nothing stands out, yet highly quaffable. 87-88.

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  7/30/2013 - Baudelaire wrote: 89 Points

  Had an almost Beaujolais-like quality on day one: a nice stony tartness to the fruit, with an aroma to match. On day two, the fruit became more full, with plum and raisin notes, and the body and nose were likewise softer and fuller. I very much enjoyed this bottle, more than the previous one from several months ago.

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  11/2/2012 - Khandelwal wrote: 92 Points

  Yummy. Cherry favors.

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