This bottling of Chianti Classico has been hitting up high ratings over the past few years. This vintage may even be better than the 2010 Castelli del Grevepesa Riserva and a notch up from the regular bottling of Chianti I reviewed last year.

Aromas of cigar box and burnt anise open into dark berry notes.  Espresso and tea leaf lend complexity to the savory fruit compote and rich texture of this lovely Wine.

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(1) Taste the wines blind. As any experienced taster will admit, identifying wines blind is an incredibly difficult thing to do. As a result, there is no doubt that tasting wines blind is a humbling experience. Perhaps this is why it is resisted. But the failure to taste wines blind leads to terrible biases. Indeed, one of the primary purposes of an independent wine tasting is to test whether common perceptions are really correct. Doing this requires that extraneous information that reflects the opinions of others be kept from biasing the tasters. Otherwise, what is the point of creating the wine tasting event? You might just as well read the score a wine has received in a wine publication and parrot it to everyone who will listen (something which, in our experience, happens all to often!)

The Final Word: Castelli del Grevepesa 2011″Clemente VII Chianti” Classico Riserva

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