2010 Montevertine Pian del Ciampolo Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (37) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  4/16/2023 - IQL Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Garnet / brick red edging towards tawny on the rim. Has a bit of a plum characteristic now. I agree with others that this is now a delicate food wine. Still has good acidity, but the more austere tannic structure that I look forward to with Montevertine has mostly dissolved and only leaves a very fine velvet feeling in the mouth. The nose retains a hint of the classic Montevertine dry earthiness that almost reads as minerality but is starting to become slightly overshadowed by the oxidative plum quality. I think this wine was probably better a few years ago. While it still has some life and I'm sure it'll continue to be interesting, I would drink up.

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  2/8/2022 - Reinoudoor Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Great sangiovese from a great producer. Contrary to the drinking window here this actually is still very well balanced. You could even drink over next few years imo.

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  1/7/2021 - lightning wrote: 88 Points

  Pale garnet. Predominantly sour cherry with a touch of liquorice on the nose, somewhat muted; light bodied, bright cherry acidity on entry with that sangiovese earthy twist in the midpalate, a whisper of tannins. Nothing serious here, a food wine mostly - think Barbera. The acid is starting to overtake things, so I would look to finish off most bottles soon.

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  3/13/2020 - baroloboy55-2.0 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Apparently my last bottle of this vintage, but I always buy this wine and the Rosso (may regret not being more consistent on the PT) and it never ceases to surprise and reward. This wine was classic Montevertine red, morello cherry fruit, hints of camphor, even at this age still relatively bright and little aged Sangio notes, perhaps not as expressive as one might hope for a Sangio from this very good vintage, but very well balanced and classic. I've recently done a bunch of inventorying and one of my Coronavirus projects when we ultimately are home-bound will be to do some vertical tastings of my stocks of Montevertine and share my observations-- in the interests of science!
  
  Night two, after 20+ hours on Coravin, the aromatics have come up a bit, might merit a slightly hire score, maybe 90.75! But again, very very happy to be enjoying this bottle

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  3/13/2018 - Nutty08 wrote: 91 Points

  Good. Lower acidity than expected but nice ripe black cherry core. Needed a couple hours to open up. Strongly aromatic wine.

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