Sour cherries, plum, blackberries & baked strawberries, softened cedar, dry tobacco w/ ash, leather, dry crushed rocks, dry soil, dark spice box, anise, tarriness, more dark chocolate but some milk chocolate, caramel notes, withering dark & red flowers with dry red roses, nice acidity and still showing firm structure/tension, well balanced and plush 90 second finish.
Has another 7-10 yrs ahead.
@Bella Saratoga - dinner before “America” at the Mtn. Winery.
Sour cherries, plum, blackberries & baked strawberries, softened cedar, dry tobacco w/ ash, leather, dry crushed rocks, dry soil, dark spice box, anise, tarriness, more dark chocolate but some milk chocolate, caramel notes, withering dark & red flowers with dry red roses, nice acidity and still showing firm structure/tension, well balanced and plush 90 second finish.
Has another 7-10 yrs ahead.
@Bella Saratoga - dinner before “America” at the Mtn. Winery.
Sep 21st, 2026
Still youthful ruby just starting to turn garnet. Gorgeous black cherry, cedar, leather and clove. Textbook Chianti Classico Riserva with well resolved tannins. Drinking beautifully and definitely with a few years more life
Still youthful ruby just starting to turn garnet. Gorgeous black cherry, cedar, leather and clove. Textbook Chianti Classico Riserva with well resolved tannins. Drinking beautifully and definitely with a few years more life
Apr 20th, 2019
Chianti Classico, Chianti, Tuscany, Italy
