ON-145920 BC-380824 QC-11380951

Frescobaldi Tenuta Di Castiglioni 2016, Igt Toscana

Red Blend Red Blend
Tuscany, Italy

$18.95 (145920)

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Steve Thurlow
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Steve Thurlow

This is an elegant powerful fragrant red blend of cabernet sauvignon with sangiovese. Expect aromas of black cherry...

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David Lawrason
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David Lawrason

This is a blend of cabernet and sangiovese from the Fresobaldi family's 700 year old estate in the Florentine hills....

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todd10
todd10

It had aromas of cassis along with other dark fruit. I was surprised with how balanced the wine was. I was expecting the tannin's to over power the wine for a while, but right from the start it was petty smooth. It had a nice finish best described as spiced oak. From when I first opened the bottle to my last glass about two hours later, I did not find that the wine evolved too much. I personally see no need to decant this wine.
Tasted October 2019

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Steve Elder
Steve Elder

Good deep colour just starting to fade at the rim. Spicy, minerally nose with the fruit quite ripe but starting to shift into the dried spectrum. Med-full bodied, round, spicy, juicy with the tannins still quite firm. Just starting to enter it’s drinking window I’d say and will clearly hold for several more years.

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oldwhiteman
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This is my go-to wine. Medium bodied, very consistent, dry, goes with most foods. None of the over the top flavours you find in wines nowadays that makes them taste artificial.

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Dave Dal Farra
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