2014 Casale del Giglio Lazio Cesanese Rosso

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  3/19/2021 - Wildgrant Likes this wine:

  Dark berries, medium body, good acidity, still drinking nicely and easy to drink. Served with Pan-Fried Thin Beef Steaks, Cacciatora Style (Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking) and Wilted Greens (The Girl and the Fig). Nothing earth-shattering here, but a pleasant, good wine. Pretty nice with chocolate too.

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  10/8/2018 - Vandiner wrote: 90 Points

  Delicious. Some spice and coffee notes on nose, round medium bodied, easy, with some complexity. Probably would not guess Italian. A crowd pleaser with none of the cynicism that that characterization can bring. Hard to see anyone not enjoying this.

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  1/1/2018 - mjwstickings Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I gave a previous bottle a 90, but this one settles more in the 88-89 range. I may have been taken in by the novelty of the varietal / region (as we don't see much Cesanese / Lazio in Ontario), but the first bottle showcased intriguing complexity, including notes of dark berries, meat, black pepper, and, in a nod to southern Italian reds, strong minerality, specifically iron. Inky and butter, it was food-friendly and familiar, yet also new and refreshing. This second bottle, in contrast, is just a bit too rough, a bit too lacking in complexity, for a 90, and the nose is a bit too buttery, the fruit a bit too ripe and baked. (And, thinking back, maybe the first one was too.) But, for all that, it's still really good, an intriguing find from Lazio, a grape, rooted in antiquity, well off the beaten path.

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  11/20/2017 - Chateau du Fey 1994 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  It took a while for this wine to open up and then settle down but after a couple hours it was really enjoyable. Dark and opaque with a concentrated and rich backbone but balanced with good acidity and a very long finish. Good QPR.

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  10/24/2017 - saturnaisland wrote: 89 Points

  Nice intense red (and some back) fruits with good tannins. A bit rustic but still quite smooth. An interesting and enjoyable wine.

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