A beautiful wine from a vintage for the ages. The structured 89 vintage serves this wine well - lovely tertiary notes but still very much alive, with terrific lift, density, depth of the fruit, and the classic nose of tobacco, leather, iron and mushroom.
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The bouquet was dark–hauntingly so–and brooding, with sweet herbs, tobacco, black cherry, moist soil and crushed stone. On the palate, I found silky textures offset by a stunning mix of acid and fine tannin, with dark berry and mineral tones. It finished long and structured on dried red berry fruit, yet not quite ready to offer up its treasures as the ‘89 Rocche was.
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Six '89 Vietti with Luca Currado (Il Corso): Showed a little darker in color than the previous few wines and had a wildly fragrant nose that was fruit driven and full of cherries, berries, cement dust, roses, cocoa, spice and light balsam notes. Quite intense upfront and fruit driven, but the structure came up big time on the back end, the fruit receded and the wine seemed to thin out. While certainly enjoyable, it’s just not as complete as the others. Low A-.
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6/20/2021 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 94 Points
A beautiful wine from a vintage for the ages. The structured 89 vintage serves this wine well - lovely tertiary notes but still very much alive, with terrific lift, density, depth of the fruit, and the classic nose of tobacco, leather, iron and mushroom.
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6/13/2017 - kenv Likes this wine: 96 Points
Vietti Dinner with Luca Currado (Ai Fiori Restaurant in the Langham Place Hotel, NYC): [Double decanted around 1pm.] Wonderfully perfumed. Expansive and stunning. Another great 89 with great upside potential. 95-??
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6/13/2017 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 93 Points
The bouquet was dark–hauntingly so–and brooding, with sweet herbs, tobacco, black cherry, moist soil and crushed stone. On the palate, I found silky textures offset by a stunning mix of acid and fine tannin, with dark berry and mineral tones. It finished long and structured on dried red berry fruit, yet not quite ready to offer up its treasures as the ‘89 Rocche was.
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3/8/2009 - BradKNYC wrote:
Six '89 Vietti with Luca Currado (Il Corso): Showed a little darker in color than the previous few wines and had a wildly fragrant nose that was fruit driven and full of cherries, berries, cement dust, roses, cocoa, spice and light balsam notes. Quite intense upfront and fruit driven, but the structure came up big time on the back end, the fruit receded and the wine seemed to thin out. While certainly enjoyable, it’s just not as complete as the others. Low A-.
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