2003 Farnese Edizione Cinque Autoctoni

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 87 points

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  5/22/2022 - dannyg Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Taste all over the place. Mix of 5 grapes but not blended well. Bitter after taste

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  11/19/2006 - Brnshj22 wrote: 86 Points

  Interesting wine. Looks like a barrel sample... Too flabby and overripe to merit a higher score. Very fruit forward.

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  10/20/2006 - Wrighty wrote: 91 Points

  Very dark colour with a very powerful nose with lots of blackcurrant and some mineral elements. Palate is concentrated but probably a little over extracted with a little chewiness to it but not really from tannins although there are some there. Would be interesting in blind line up - could be mistaken for a big Aussie - which I might try one day!

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  10/13/2006 - Plusvini wrote: 86 Points

  First opened yesterday. Almost black in the glass, nose of iron and black berries. Overwhelming raisinated fruit palate. Concentrated but the tannin levels don't match the fruit. Needs to age but not sure if it will.
  
  After a day on the counter: Not a whole lot different. More plum and berry on the nose that before but the palate is still overwhelming. Still lots of raisins and iron. Starting to grow on me but needs more air time.

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  7/5/2004 - graemeg wrote:

  NobleRottersSydney - Blends night (Lucio's, Paddington): A bit of this, a bit of that, and you have an Italian Frankenstein. Presented in a bottle so vast and heavy it was scarcely any lighter with all the wine poured, this wine is not allowed to display a vintage, by virtue of its being sourced from two different regions in Italy. It does, apparently, meet the definitions of ‘wine’. Pitch black in colour, it’s a huge inky, tarry, ultra-tannic monster of a wine. McLaren Vale meets the Mafia. Whether it will live forever, or collapse into a hot alcoholic mess in a few years is anyone’s guess. The harvest year (2003) appears as a kind of watermark on the label.

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