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(February 15, 2018) …<\/em> MONTEPULCIANO<\/strong> – I would be continuing my usual rules of not scoring unfinished wines (aka: barrel samples), but this year only two wines fit that bill – the rest of the 69 wines were all finished and ready for presentation.<\/p>\n 2015 seems to have been a good vintage for all of Tuscany, and Montepulciano is no different, lots of juicy fruit reigns supreme here, as someone pointed out: “this would be the vintage to give someone who was hems and hahs about Vino Nobile”. It’s easy drinking and ready to go but not overly complex … speaking of ready to go let’s get to the wines.<\/p>\n Scored (Finished) Wines …<\/strong><\/p>\n Selezione and Reserva Wines …<\/strong><\/p>\n Bindella 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “I Quadri”<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong> Drink or Hold …<\/strong><\/p>\n Also as part of the tasting there were a number of older vintage wines were presented, since many are not on the market anymore it’s an opportunity to see how those cellar dwellers are holding up – my rating here is about ready to drink (D), hold (H) or both (DH)<\/p>\n Contucci 2014 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Pietra Rossa”<\/em> <\/span>… (D)<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (February 15, 2018) … MONTEPULCIANO – I would be continuing my usual rules of not scoring unfinished wines (aka: barrel samples), but this year only two wines fit that bill – the rest of the 69 wines were all finished and ready for presentation. 2015 seems to have been a good vintage for all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[314,48,455,81,145],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy","tag-anteprima","tag-italy","tag-montepulciano","tag-red-wine","tag-vino-nobile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","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=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VinoNobile-2018a.jpg\")
Avignonesi 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
Bindella 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva “Vallocaia”<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
Croce di Febo 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
Dei 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong>
Fattoria La Braccesca 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong>
Gattavecchi 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (****)<\/strong>
Il Molinaccio 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “La Spinosa”<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
La Ciarliana 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong>
Le Berne 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong>
Metinella 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (***+)<\/strong>
Nottola 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
Salcheto 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (****)<\/strong>
Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Fassati 2015 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Gersemi”<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½+)<\/strong>
Fattoria della Talosa 2014 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong>
Tenuta Valdipiatta 2014 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Vigna d’Alfiero”<\/em><\/span> … (*** ½)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Il Macchione 2014 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (D)<\/strong>
Contucci 2014 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Mulinvecchio”<\/em><\/span> … (D)<\/strong>
Icario 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/em><\/span> … (H)<\/strong>
Antico 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Colle Riserva “Il Saggio”<\/em><\/span> … (DH)<\/strong>
Boscarelli 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva<\/em><\/span> … (DH)<\/strong>
Fanetti 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva<\/span><\/em> … (D)<\/strong>
Il Macchione 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva<\/em><\/span> … (H)<\/strong>
Tenute Trerose 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Simposio”<\/em><\/span> … (D)<\/strong>
Nottola 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Origine”<\/em><\/span> … (H)<\/strong>
La Ciarliana 2012 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Vigna ‘Scianello”<\/em><\/span> … (D)<\/strong>
Montemercurio 2011 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano “Damo”<\/span><\/em> … (D)<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VinoNobile_2018b.jpg\")
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