Strawberry, cassis, raspberry, earth, big grippy tannins and bright acid — 2 years ago
See rating from October 2021. Same vintage and same tasting profile. Consistently great. — 3 years ago
Medium-deep, ruby-garnet color.
Aromas of black cherry, clove, tomato leaf.
Dry. Flavors of black cherry, tomato leaf, peppercorn, tar, acetone. Medium,chewy tannins.
Intensity: 4/5
Complexity: 4/5
Balance: 4/5
Finish: 4/5 — 8 months ago
Cuvée Grande Expression and again am impressive aged Corsican white. Nice medium yellow color with nose of melons and white floral slight oxidative notes and balanced palate. Great with Evan’s fried fish! — 2 years ago
One more vernatsch/schiava gentile that i deeply enjoy
Simple, honest, that crisp cherry with a tiny bit of bittterness, smooth tannin, great freshness, mineral mood and a feminine body, very attractive, kind of exotic, but familiar...i can't explain
I am sure this bottle will benefit from a couple of years of rest, you can tell there is a texture that is going to flesh out, to become kind of chewy
I reckon this wine is a real bargain, but you need to like the typology — 2 years ago
Rome, Italy-last night here and found my new fav! Dark, it coats your throat as you drink it. It’s full bodied. Long finish. Oak-ey. Smokey. Lovely!! — 9 months ago
Starting to fall in love with these Montepulciano reserves. This is a great one. Dark penetrating extracts of prune and dark tart cherry that unfold in your mouth like a 500 page book. Subtle, fine grained tannins carry the wine for a 3 minute lingering finish. Montepulciano wines are made from a special Sangiovese selection called Prugnolo gentile, a smaller berry with thinner skin than the larger berries from the Sangiovese grosso selection used in Brunello wines from Montalcino. Destiny flavor, needs a bit of an acquired taste , but once adapted they become addictive. — 2 years ago
Surely young, surely delicious !!
I consider the vernatsch, which we call in Italian Schiava gentile, our petit pinot noir.
This is an established label of an old vines version, a rare example of schiava that does age very well.
This is a wine somehow that if you blind taste it you could mistake for a white, absence of tannin and good freshness. With time it builds up a bit of flesh, but it does remains generally a grape to drink when young. Best examples are in the St. Magdalener denomination.
Still i enjoy this label everytime and also the other schiava Girlan produces.
Cheers🍷 — 2 years ago
Byron Hewett
Tasty. Easy drinker. — 9 days ago