2019 Cantina di Tortona Derthona Selezione Fiumana

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  6/23/2022 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

  P&p at cellar temp. Quince/apple/pear, Lemonheads, honey, and herbaceous/wintergreen/minty/pine aromas, with a fleeting savory/meaty streak. Similar on the palate, big, citrusy, fairly full-bodied but lifted by good acidity. Bright, fresh, tangy, but with plenty of substance and flesh as well. Enjoyable wine, tasty, offers good typicity, excellent value.

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  3/30/2022 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  100% Timorasso, fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks. 14,5% alcohol.
  
  Luminous neon-green Mountain Dew appearance. Youthful, somewhat sweetish nose with aromas of honey, some ripe pear, a little bit of orange marmalade, light sappy notes of herbal spice and a hint of something gaseous - perhaps a more liberal touch of SO2? The wine is focused and rather full-bodied on the palate with intense flavors of stony minerality, some ripe citrus fruits, a little bit of juicy peachy fruit, light honeyed tones, a hint of pear and a textural touch of waxy extraction that lends a subtle touch of bitterness to the taste. The overall feel is balanced and quite structured, thanks to the moderately high acidity. The finish is ripe and juicy with intense, subtly sweetish flavors of peach, some ripe orange, a little bit of sappy herbal spice, light stony mineral notes of a hint of pear. The high alcohol remains surprisingly effortlessly out of the way.
  
  A still very youthful but also wonderfully fresh and balanced Timorasso that is very true to the variety: the wine is quite big and high in alcohol, yet retains great sense of freshness and focus, coming across as surprisingly sleek for its size. The wine shows good potential for further development and based on its slightly acrid, gaseous hint in the nose, the wine might actually benefit from additional aging. Good already now, but will get better with age. Super value at 13€.

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