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Red Bottle overall rating:
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The Vino Rosso di Montalcino is stored in
oak wine butts for six months and put on the
market one year after the vintage. The flavour
is dry, warm, slightly tannic, strong. |
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Rosso di Montalcino, made
by the same winemakers of Brunello, is less expensive,
aged only a year or so and thus lighter, with softer
tannins and a bit fruitier, which many people like.
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Picture
on top: MICHELANGELO
The Delphic Sibyl - 1509 - Fresco, Cappella
Sistina, Vatican |
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A
bit of history:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(1475 - 1564) |
"On
the side walls of the chapel, five prophets alternate
with the same number of sibyls, so that each prophet
is paired with a sibyl on the opposite wall: the
Delphic Sibyl and Joel, Isaiah, and the Erythraean
Sibyl, the Cumaean Sibyl and Ezekiel, Daniel and
the Persian Sibyl, the Libyan Sibyl, and Jeremiah.
This studied parallelism alludes both to the theme
of the universality of the message of Redemption
and the idea of the perfect concordance of the Revelation
in the Judaic world and in the pagan one."
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Michelangelo, arguably one of the most inspired
creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo
da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High
Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter,
and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his
contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in
general.
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For posterity Michelangelo has always remained one
of the small group of the most exalted artists,
who have been felt to express, like Shakespeare
or Beethoven, the tragic experience of humanity
with the greatest depth and universal scope.
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Grape
varieties:
SANGIOVESE
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The red grape of Tuscany and notably,
Chianti and Brunello di Montalcino, it is
second only to Barbera as Italy's most planted
red variety. It is a thin skinned grape that
gives medium body and good acidity. Cherry
like when young, it develops into a mature
wine with black cherry and liquorice aromas.
It blends very well with Cabernet Sauvignon
as witnessed in the great Tuscan 'Vini da
Tavolas'. Some plantings are found in California,
Australia and Argentina but its home is very
much in the Tuscan hills.
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'Rosso di Montalcino'
is brilliant and clear, dark red. The aroma is characteristic
and the flavour is dry and slightly tannic. A perfect
choice for pasta with meat-sauce, meat and cheese.
Best served in crystal glasses for red wine at a temperature
around 18°c.
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TUSCANY
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| Label: |
ROSSO DI MONTALCINO
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| Winery: |
La Fornace
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| Alcoholic vol.: |
14%
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| Residual
sugar: |
1,4 g/l
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| Acids: |
5,24 g/l (tartaric)
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| Grape varieties: |
Sangiovese "Grosso"
(100%)
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| Production: |
7000 bottles
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| Aging: |
at least 6 monthsin oak wine
butts, 4 months in bottle, this
wine is put on the market one year after the grape-harvest
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| Bottle: |
750 ml bottle
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Loris
says: |
Very
nice fruit expression...
Oftentimes Rosso di Montalcino
wines offer much of the complex charm of their longer-aged
cousins, Brunello, but without a lot of oak aging
that can sometimes be overwhelming. This one has
very nice fruit expression and terrific balance. |
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Marco
says: |
Graceful
to the end...
Nicely concentrated dark cherry
and berry flavors, tangy, violet, cola and perfectly
tuned oak influences. It has terrific balance, finishing
with a nutty, bitter almond note, graceful to the
end. |
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W.S.
says: |
Wine
Spectator : 88 points
"Rosso di Montalcino 1997
- Lovely blackberry, chocolate and plum aromas.
Medium-bodied, with loads of fruit and superfine
tannins. A beauty. Not imported into the U.S. Drink
now. " |
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Did
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A
bit of history:
MONTALCINO AND THE 'ROSSO'
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Montalcino is not known solely for its history or
for its accomplishments in the arts. It is also
famous for its wines.
Already appreciated in past centuries, its
enological production remains faithful to the canons
of Tuscan tradition. Yet it was only toward the
end of the last century that the first experiments
were undertaken to improve and develop the characteristics
of a raw material and an environment that are quite
special.
Still, Brunello is not Montalcino's sole entry in
the field of premium wines. Previously appreciated
and widely known under various denominations, the
Rosso di Montalcino acquired a precise identity
and official recognition with the issuance of the
Denominazione di Origine Controllata in 1983. The
community can now boast of having three denominations
of origin: Brunello, which requires extended aging;
Rosso di Montalcino, a younger wine that combines
a special vivacity and freshness with a superb structure,
and the Moscadello di Montalcino, which is sweetish
and fizzy.
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