2014 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso Calderara Sottana

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  1/4/2024 - Sperls Likes this wine: 88 Points

  While I liked it, the bottle definitely underperformed expectations. Purchased after released and stored well, the wine felt older than it should have been with more evolved aromatics (elevated alcohol, some nuttiness), slight bricking in color, etc. Still very nice to drink but not fresh and lacking something I thought.

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  3/30/2022 - Rollerball wrote: 95 Points

  Entering drinking window and surpassing all expectations in reverberation and texture. Time in the glass brings out the wine's striking inner perfume, gentle sweetness, and pedigree. It all works so well together. Now- 2028 for this level of excitement. Magnificent.

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  2/11/2022 - danstrings Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lovely - sleek dark red fruit, nice balance and nuance, awesome with an array of wood fired pizzas

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  1/12/2022 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Luminous mid red, paling quite a bit through to the core. Penetrating aromatics - darker red tones / some earthy notes/ some distinction. I still find it difficult to pin down the particular flavor of Norello Mascalese grown on Volcanic soil - there is something wild and untamed about it which to me prevents the wine being completely elegant - but this wine certainly has it. Quite complex already. Suggesting some acidic muscle to come. Sure enough, on the palate the acid is quite evident giving the wine freshness and lift. Fruit of some intensity. Fine grained tannins that settle late in the gums. Mid weight. Very adequate length. One sees the structural resemblance to Burgundy, but with a flavor profile that is much more southern, more robust/less refined and altogether more mysterious. Balanced and drinking well already but will still keep. Has considerable interest. Very good and no doubt a wine faithfully reflecting the soil and place of its origin. If you are on board with the slightly untamed flavors, the cru wines from Tenuta delle Terre surely represent good value and work well with many food categories. 2014 vintage apparently the best of the decade on Etna.

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  9/22/2021 - Livonietisr wrote: 93 Points

  Deep garnet color. Intense aromas of sweet cherries, tar, smoke, dark chocolate. Wine is rich and balanced. Medium body. High acidity. Taste of cherries, raspberies, dark chocolate, smoke. Wine is still young with slightly drying tannins. Additional cellar time will do good.

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