2011 Cottanera Etna Barbazzale

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87 points

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  7/6/2013 - YWG Wine Guy wrote: 88 Points

  Interesting tasting notes from last couple of entries, I don't get the over oaked quality, and i'm often sensitive to this. The experience is nice for summer, and is similar to the '10. For what i would expect, spot on! Good price also. Something to serve a tad cool before/during a summer time BBQ or general "patio" get together. Great talking points about varietals and location and the whole "Mt. Etna" thing.
  
  Nose is inviting with rich dark cherry fruit with a note of sausage/meat or ?soy sauce as others suggest. Palate is med bodied, refreshing with some med+ acid and light, but coating tannin. Dark fruit - cherry/blackberry and finishes somewhat fast with a light herbal quality - but is nice and all this is in balance.
  
  I think served best after a short decant time and a few degrees below room temp. Also would suggest that this will do well over next couple of years, but drink fine now.

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  4/23/2013 - kakpoo Likes this wine:

  BEERZEBUB has captured the majority of this wine in his note so I'll just add on a few things: I was also getting some soy sauce on the nose. The oak makes its presence know on both the nose and palate. The floral fruits give the oak almost a sweet character, but this is certainly a dry wine. The structure has an abundance of acid and tannin to match the oak, but the oak definitely obscures some of delicious fruit qualities. I'm guessing that the producer intended people to age this wine as the level of oak is on par with some of the more expensive "cru" etna rossos from Marc de Grazia. Only time will tell if the fruit has the fortitude to go the distance until the oak comes into balance...

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  2/26/2013 - Beerzebub wrote:

  Nice volcanic smoky rocks on the nose and palate, with good cherry, hibiscus and black pepper, pretty good acidity, quite drinkable. Unfortunately, a medium dose of oak weighs the wine down a bit, is distracting, and has the effect of making the wine less distinct and interesting overall. Enjoyable enough, but seems like it could be significantly better with little or no new oak.

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  11/1/2012 - Bellissimo wrote:

  PnP, served with dinner, didn't take detailed notes but general impression was this was pretty ordinary, medium weight.

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