{"id":3693,"date":"2017-03-16T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/visit-to-la-braccesca-antinori\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:39:07","slug":"visit-to-la-braccesca-antinori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/visit-to-la-braccesca-antinori\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to La Braccesca (Antinori) in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dinner and a tasting of four vintages of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva – Vigneto Santa Pia … all wines are aged in barrel for 18 months and 18 more in bottle:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Arrival at the estate …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Tasting Set-up …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wines and How They Stack Up …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2007 Vigneto Santa Pia<\/strong><\/span>
Aromas<\/strong><\/em> – Charcoal, smoke and ash
Palate<\/em><\/strong> – soft, big, frim, dark fruit: cassis, blackberry with graphite, smoke, and herbal notes; acidity is quite high and the tannins bite back<\/p>\n

2008 Vigneto Santa Pia (my favourite)<\/strong><\/span>
Aromas<\/strong><\/em> – cassis, strawberry, balsamic and tobacco
Palate<\/strong> <\/em>– lovely, fresh red fruit with tobacco and mineral; the tannins need taming but it does have a long elegant finish<\/p>\n

2009 Vigneto Santa Pia<\/strong><\/span>
Aromas<\/strong><\/em> – coffee, licorice, strawberry but with a strange underlying note of turpentine
Palate<\/strong><\/em> – rich, full and spicy with notes of cassis, plum and black cherry; it also has a thick almost chewy finish<\/p>\n

2010 Vigneto Santa Pia<\/strong><\/span>
Aromas<\/strong><\/em> – vanilla, cedar, with black and blue fruit
Palate<\/strong> <\/em>– smoky, cherry, cassis, blackberry, big fruit but still needs to evolved because it is mildly aggressive with tannins and a good amount of acidity<\/p>\n

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Also tasted the 2011 Bramasole Syrah<\/strong><\/em><\/span> from the Cortona region for those who don’t believe Syrah and Italy belong together – think again …<\/p>\n

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2011 Bramasole Syrah<\/strong><\/span> (Cortona)
– 12-14 months in a mix of 60% new French oak and 40% one year old oak –
cassis, raspberry and other dark fruits with white and black pepper;
fresh and just a beautiful bottle made from select parcels – (~50,000 bottles made) … Rating: ****+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dinner and a tasting of four vintages of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva – Vigneto Santa Pia … all wines are aged in barrel for 18 months and 18 more in bottle: Arrival at the estate …   The Tasting Set-up …   The Wines and How They Stack Up … 2007 Vigneto Santa PiaAromas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48,47,145],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy","tag-italy","tag-tuscany","tag-vino-nobile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}