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IN VIOLAS MERLOT 2018 DOC Cortona |
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
POLIZIANO |
Here is an attractive, fairly full bodied, delicious Tuscan Merlot that offers lots of satisfaction. It has a very deep intense purple colour and rich, ripe, expansive nose that is loaded with warm ripe Damson plums, black cherry and cassis along with faintly savoury, complex, cedar-sandalwood notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, intense, complex and mouthfilling with attractive, intense, ripe, plum-cassis-black-cherry fruit along with a lingering, bright, rounded, sandalwood-cedar finish that goes on and on. Nice ripe tannins, it’s excellent now and will improve over the next five years. This 100% Merlot which was aged for 16-18 months in French oak barrels has 14.5% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar with lot number L120220 on the back label. |
CSPC |
22794 |
Type |
Red Table Wine |
Agent |
Nob Est |
Country |
Italy |
Region |
Tuscany |
Rating |
***/***+(94 points) Bright, Ripe, Well Structured |
LCBO Text |
Status |
Recommended by Vintage Assessments! A Best Buy |
TASTING NOTE: A fresh and linear merlot with blueberry, black-olive and citrus undertones. It's medium-bodied and creamy with vivid intensity. Some wood, too. Shows attractive potential. Give it three or four years to come together. Try after 2024 [through early 2030s]. Score - 93 (jamessuckling.com, Sept. 6, 2022) |
Price |
$ 37.95 |
Bottle Size |
750 mL |
Tasting Date |
vintages release - September 9, 2023 |
Cases bought |
200 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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