2004 Corte Sant'Alda Amarone della Valpolicella

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  7/2/2018 - gresch wrote:

  My first amarone. This needed a lot of time. I'd used the coravin to extract a couple glasses out over the last year. The first time, the wine was a tannic beast. The tannins weren't unpleasant, but the only reading that I got was in the texture (& a hint of black fruit). This time around, I opened the bottle on Sunday, left it get 2+ hours of air. It wasn't nearly as tannic & some fruit was showing through, but it was out of sync. I recorked the bottled and put it in the fridge.
  The next day, after popping the cork and giving it a couple hours, it came around and had much better balance. There's still a black fruit core in here, though there started to be more nuances built around it as it got more and more air.

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  2/11/2018 - AW Marlow Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2 hour decant. Big, sweet, mouth filling Amarone. Fully resolved tannins. Lots of dark fruit and black cherry. Paired with a chilli (sic) for which it was more than a match. Suspect this could last many more years so no rush if you are lucky enough to have some but sadly my last bottle.

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  2/18/2017 - bacchus of knockholt Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark ruby. Aromas of stewed plum, black cherry, dried earth, mushroom, a little bit spirity too. The palate has powerful flavours of rich black cherry, baked currants, earthy, mushroom, forest floor, integrated tannins and very long finish. A big wine but lovely balance.

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  10/23/2016 - chadslater wrote:

  Drank with Roast beef up at Mackerel Beach. Big and smooth. Tannins very subdued, but you can sense the 15.5% in the background. Chocolate, cassis, its probably nearing it's peak. Slight loss as had poor quality wine glasses.

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  10/1/2016 - thunberg wrote: 87 Points

  @Vinovativa tasting

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