2016 Salcheto Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 91 points

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  12/1/2023 - Bryan49 wrote: 89 Points

  Day 1: Served with pizza. Disappointing. Closed, dark fruit, tobacco and lots of wood. Not very open or expressive.
  Day 3. Served with meat sause & pasta. Much better, open and expressive. More red fruit, longer finish and more interesting.
  
  IMO this calls for 3-5 years more cellar time if you want to realize the potential.

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  11/25/2023 - kjwilli Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A big difference from my 1st bottle (which I now know was skunked), this was excellent. Dark red color, pure in its Sangiovese profile. Rich and ripe on the palate with nice smooth balance, good length, med- tannin and a clean finish. Very pleasurable to drink, wife liked it. This producer seems to lean towards the ripe, fruit forward style. Drank next to their 2019 VNdM and a 2007 Sanguineto Riserva, both of which I'll write about separately.

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  11/12/2023 - kjwilli wrote:

  I enjoy their VNdM Normale, but something seems off here. Could just be a bad bottle. Skunk-like on the nose. Really nice fruit on the palate though. Drank next to Bindella and Le Berne, which offered typical red berry aromas. Nose improved slightly on Day 2, but still unusually funky to me. Disappointing.

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  4/12/2023 - jmull Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Big and rich, resembling a modern Brunello.

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  2/18/2023 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  A blend of Prugnolo Gentile aka. Sangiovese (95%) and Colorino (5%) from the estate vineyards. The wine is made with Governo Toscano method, ie. a part of Sangiovese is harvested over-ripe and raisined by drying, then added to the already fermented wine to initiate a second fermentation. Aged in botti casks (70%) and French oak tonneaux (30%) for 24 months. 14% alcohol, 2,6 g/l residual sugar, 5,3 g/l acidity and pH 3,55. Total production 18,000 bottles.
  
  Quite deep, moderately opaque and very slightly hazy black cherry color. The nose feels deep, sweetish and quite youthful with dark-toned aromas of cherry marmalade, some plummy notes, a little bit of strawberry, light candied notes of red licorice, a hint of savory spice and a touch of dried red fruits. The wine feels ripe, juicy and youthful on the palate with a moderately full body and succulent flavors of sweet strawberries and cherry marmalade, some plummy tones, a little bit of strawberry, light red licorice tones, a hint of wizened dark berries and a touch of dark-toned oak oak spice. Although the wine seems to be moderately high in acidity with balanced medium tannins, the overall feel is still a bit on the softer side. The finish is ripe and juicy with flavors of sweet black cherries, some red plums, a little bit of red licorice, light strawberry tones, a hint of woody oak spice and a touch of wizened dark berries.
  
  A quite pleasant but also rather easy and very accessible Vino Nobile where the Governo Toscano method seems to come through in those sweet dried-fruit flavors and overall smoothness that is bordering on almost flabby softness - both something I really don't like that much in Sangiovese. Although a pretty enjoyable wine in its own right, the wine didn't really manage to impress me in any way and in a tasting of more than a dozen of 2016 Vino Nobiles, this particular wine seemed a bit blowzy and banal in comparison to the other wines we tasted. Not really worth the 26€.

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