2010 Isole e Olena Cepparello Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (71) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  3/8/2024 - Vinogan(s) wrote: flawed

  3 bottles bought, all 3 flawed

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  12/23/2023 - Édifice Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Nice bouquet of ripe cherries, red berries, jam, spices and a bit of mint and crushed stone. Wonderful palate, lush, jammy yet fresh, red berries, sweetness, minty and spicy notes.

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  12/12/2023 - Rieslingfan wrote:

  Third bottle of a six-pack, and still on the upswing. Not that surprising, but there is still a lot of red fruit, as well as a lot of structure. If served blind I would have guessed maybe five years old, not thirteen. After a couple of hours it developed a deeper, meatier element, but overall still very young, and promising more for the future. Maybe check in again around 2028-2030.

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  11/12/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pop and pour bottle, at our boozy lunch over the long weekend. Immediately presented itself with lovely floral aromatics and ripe blackberries too. I guessed.. BdM 10 years.
  
  Very concentrated with such ripe blackfruits, and grippy tannins on the mouthfeel too. Nose kept evolving through the afternoon, finishing with polished leather. This is such a complex wine which keeps improving!
  
  SKT was right about guessing that this is a long-hang vintage. It seems in 2010, the estate did not finish picking until the first days of November due to a long, slow ripening season. The tannins are typically structured and rather hard. Oddly I did not find this so "un-ready", but I can't wait to try this in another 5 years.
  
  Thanks Tay for sharing this at the Friends of Tong Woh gathering, celebrating Diwali at SKT and Chef LMK's house party, served with some incredible home cooking including Iberico pork and Angus Tomahawk steak too.
  
  Diwali celebrations
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  12 Nov 2023

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  10/29/2023 - AudunG wrote: 90 Points

  Dark and dense color. Dark aromas of cheries, blackcurrant and oak. Powerful and broad shouldered with rather coarse tannins. Impressive, but feels quite extracted.

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