This wine is from the Marche, which is on the Adriatic Coast of Italy. About 25$ from K&L. 100% Sangiovese. I decanted this for a couple of hours. There's a wicked cherry nose, but besides that, the wine really shuts you out. Meaning that it's actually kind of hard to get much else other than the cherry. Eventually, I decided that the wine was sort of spicy--not cinnamon or a baking spice (like I often find in Syrah), but more of a savory spice, like turmeric or something. The texture of this wine is great; it's velvety smooth and lithe. Good acids, just a bit of tannin in the background. This wine is good, but I feel like it wasn't showing much of itself except for fruit and plush texture that you get out of a new world wine. It really was missing some of the earthy characteristics that I have come to expect from Sangiovese-based wines. The galestro if you will... The wine was food friendly; it cut through some fresh pasta and tomato sauce that I made. Still, I felt it was somewhat one dimensional and kind of expensive in my opinion. This is perhaps more polished and new world, but also more boring, than any number of Chiani Classico's that I have had in the last couple of years. C+/B-
As a side note, what's with all the more new world stuff in the Italian wine club recently?? Perhaps the wineries can't sell their more expensive, barrique aged stuff as fast as before and now K&L is getting good deals? I'm not so sure that I'm a fan...
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