2016 San Giusto a Rentennano La Ricolma Toscana IGT

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 95.8 points

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  2/23/2024 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 97 Points

  For me, this lives up to the hype. Decanted for 30m and consumed over another hour+, this gorgeous Merlot featured tar, black olive, tobacco, and blackberry. It's very early in its drinking window - worth trying now if you have multiple bottles, as I do. I'm guessing a peak in another 10-15 years, at which time it might merit more points.

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  12/30/2020 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  This wine was opened at the end of a very long lunch following the consumption of lots of other wine. It has just been delivered in the days before and was not decanted, so the experience was not the very best and the wine didn’t show what it has in store. The nose was muted but on the palate, you could sense all the complexity there is with a broad range of fruits from red to dark, tobacco notes and herbs. I will not touch the remaining bottles for 10 or 15 years at least. The substance is promising, and this might become a great wine. Today, with a drunken taster, freshly arrived and without decanting it was drinking on a 92/93 points level.

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  12/11/2020 - sirpat00 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Tasted blind and as always with Super-Tuscans got it wrong. Clearly built for pleasure. Ripe red berry fruit with a firm mineral layer. Sweet, spicy and sexy, licorice and cloves. Over time revealing additional minty notes. Lots of tannin, but well integrated and in balance with the alcohol, acidity and aromatic intensity. The intensity, power, sweet and sexy fruit as well as the fact that this was already perfectly enjoyable without a decant despite obviously being very young was more akin to a New World bomb than an Old World Merlot!

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  4/29/2020 - soyhead wrote:

  dark purple
  nose - intense deep dark berry aromas, pencil lead, with some oak
  mouth - lush, juicy, and mouthcoating powerful but very fresh fruit, with lots of tannins and great acidity to keep it from being daunting. has a licorice like concentration which metaphorically punches you in the palate, but still comes across as fresh, even perhaps floral. In some ways reminds me a bit of shafer hillside select even though the terroir and the cepage are not the same. As much as I like Galloni, this wine, which was not cheap to begin with, has been affected by his superlatives which puts is now well beyond range of mere mortals. Lastima, no? Hold. (1136/4373)

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