2000 Luce della Vite Lucé

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  1/30/2022 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Easily 96 points+, one of the better wines we have recently had. Drinking superbly well, highly recommend and at the average CT price an amazing QPR wine. 60% merlot / 40% sangiovese, a Mondavi / Frescobaldi joint venture and I am not sure whether this is still produced or not. Mature but still somewhat youthful not over the hill in any way and with proper cellaring this still has time although I doubt any further upside can be expected with further cellaring - my recommendation is drink not hold any remaining bottles. Several bottles recently acquired as part of a much larger cellar purchase. Opened for about 90 minutes prior to consumption and if decanted would recommend only a short splash decant. Floral and aromatic nose of dark stone fruit, lilac, garrigue and a hint of black pepper. Soft mouth feel, medium bodied, well integrated, complex and balanced with a pleasant lengthy aftertaste. Complex flavor profile of some oak still present up front, sweet dark cherry and plum and then much earthier stone, mushroom, coffee and tar notes with a smokier cigar box finish. Very impressed.

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  12/25/2018 - nadecesse wrote: 84 Points

  Imbuvable avec tout cet alcool, c'est malheureux puisque le fruit est joli, plutôt complexe et généreux mais c'est totalement impossible de l'apprécier sans être dérangé par sa finale fortement capiteuse. Il fera d'excellentes sauces j'en suis certain. 84?

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  3/28/2018 - chatters wrote:

  Cellartracker in the flesh with Stefan, Mats, Tomas and Basil (La Rochelle, Tokyo): blackcurrant, slight leather, sweet spice, cream, slight vanilla. In the mouth ripe blackcurrant, cassis, sweet spice. Juicy acidity, flour textured, persistent tannins. Ridiculously long but very young. I called this as left Bordeaux, probably Pauillac, 2009

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  12/31/2017 - Ornellaia64 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Bottiglia stappata. Tappo perfetto. Colore rubino intenso. Bouquet intenso con frutta di bosco e spezie. Grande sapidità e notevole acidità e tannini ancora ben evidenti. Persistente e fantastico nel finale. Il formato double magnum consentirebbe di invecchiarlo ancora parecchi anni. Una meraviglia

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  3/19/2017 - Harrie Likes this wine: 92 Points

  tasted at dinner with M & B, an hour of air in the glass. Shows maturity yet has abundant fruit left and does not fatigue for a second. Drinks perfectly well.

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