1995 Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  9/11/2020 - MAOC wrote:

  Opened an hour before serving. Slightly dried cherry fruit with notes of fruitcake, leather, smoke and incense. The ripasso nature is very clear but the wine isn’t heavy or overly rich. There are faint VA overtones but in the background such that they add slightly to complexity. In the later stages of peak maturity. ****++

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  5/30/2018 - Rosengoo wrote: 91 Points

  This magnum was drank with friends at a major wine tasting in Maryland. It was the last bottle of the night poured after 16 other Magnum bottles so my notes are quite brief. After decanting this for 2 hours, this clear and mid purple wine had a nose of ripe grapes and some prunes. Still quite youthful flavours of dark berries and ripe cherries. The tannins and acidity were still quite strong for a 23 year old wine.

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  12/16/2016 - Lype Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Attractive package of dark berries, chocolate, raisiny sweetness. Might be a good idea to drink in the next few years.

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  12/14/2014 - Pknut wrote:

  Wow, this was good. Opens to fuzzy black/brown fruit, a worn texture, a touch sweet, showing complexities of fruitcake, dried cherries, sweet tobacco, chocolate and even notes of iodine and peat. Smooths out considerably with an hour or so of air, less fuzzy in texture, now smoother, the cherries acquiring a mentholated edge, still plenty of sweet dried fruits. Just lovely and oh so pleasurable. Amali with Greg and Bob.

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  8/1/2013 - Wine Trader Likes this wine: 92 Points

  It took about an hour and 1/2 before the heat and acid blew off this wine and started to soften up and show its profile. This is like drinking chocolate covered strawberries and blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream. Well intergraded tannins softly coat my cheeks. My teeth are glazed with flavor. Drank alongside lamb chops and a gem salad with Balsamic Modena dressing. What a night.

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