2014 I Vigneri di Salvo Foti Etna Vinupetra

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/30/2024 - theqspeaks Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium-plus nose. Good acid, medium body. Just a hint of minerality. Bright flavors balanced by the age giving it nice roundness. Evolves somewhat on the palatte with a lingering finish. Really excellent.

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  4/2/2023 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Sunday afternoon drinks at home with neighbourhood friends. Pop and poured. Drank in Conterno Sensory.
  Awesome nose and palate. Definitely amongst my top few memorable wines of 2023 so far.
  Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of openly expressive smoke, earth, meat, red berries, tea leaf. Slight initial funk on fresh pours that blows off easily with swirling. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), integrated medium tannins, just about full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet red cherries and red berries, earth peat ash, smokey meat BBQ, savoury tea leaves, spice and licorice. Long finish.
  Grilled wild herbs, tar, and maybe my imagination running wild with some volcanic subsoil minerality thing going on on day 2.
  Excellent quality. Lovely sweet red fruit quality with lots of control and never felt overripe. Heaps of accompanying complex elements to compliment the fruit. Drink and enjoy it in the prime now!
  Very old vines. Nerello Mascalese dominant I think.

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  8/29/2021 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Much as per my July note but would recommend, on consideration, holding for a year or two. I think this has even more to offer.
  91+

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  7/10/2021 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Near its prime but with plenty of time still on its side.
  Core of ripe black cherry and wild berries. Some smoke and charred oak. Volcanic minerality and powerful but smoothed-out tannins. Concentrated, integrated, fullish bodied with a decent length finish.
  Now and till 2026 (at least). 91?+

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  3/28/2021 - Guillaume-en-égypte Likes this wine:

  I have had a thing for Vinupetra since drinking a bottle of the 2005 on a holiday in Sicily about 5 years ago and try to follow it as best I can. 2014 was seen as a special vintage in Sicily & the gist I am getting is the wines are likely to take longer than usual to come around, & def. holds true for this wine.
  
  This is not ready yet although shows great potential. Lots of coiled up energy, fairly firm tannins, dark fruit and typical Etna lava-soil signature. Decanting in a wide bottom decanter for a few hours helped a little, but it was still pretty tight. Half a bottle left to the next day was again somewhat better, but not enough to show the wine at anything like its best. A couple of bottles of the 2006 last year were gorgeous & in their sweet spot, this has the potential to be just as good or better.... it just needs time. 89/90 points for now 93/94 potential in 5 years

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