1999 Antinori Chianti Classico Marchese Antinori Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  6/25/2022 - Ingmars wrote:

  Considering my note in January this year, I pulled my last bottle. Better than the one in January as there was no drying-up or fruit-fade. Not complex, but this very good plus last bottle was thoroughly satisfying, giving hope for other bottles still in cellars.

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  1/15/2022 - Ingmars wrote:

  Just a little shy on 11 years since my last published note. A personal note in 2012 records that I saw brick-red at the rim and felt that the tannins were beginning to dry-out with the last couple of glasses. Then, it was a half-notch below the fine rating I had given a year earlier. In 2014 it had fallen a further full notch, but I regarded that particular bottle as an anomaly. The one I had just opened had a level just into neck. Ruby core with brick red to light russet-watery fringe. Savoury, soured cherry nose is properly regional. but lacking nuance. The palate confirms the wine's origin, with sweet and sour cherry. Slightly malty oak. Before the bottle is half-empty, it's obvious the wine is dropping its fruit. Not suddenly, as there is still an enjoyable volume of it there at the end of the bottle, but it's time to be drinking this very good Chianti up.

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  12/24/2019 - olioli wrote: 87 Points

  Intéressant avec nourriture, mais sur le déclin++.

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  10/8/2019 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 2 hrs
  -med dark red mild bricking
  -low key mature elements cherry tobacco
  -med- acidity, med weight cherry tobacco fruit with a sweet-ish residue, med/med- tannins are a little dried out
  -fully mature but somewhat surprisingly not over the hill

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  10/15/2015 - Monsieur le Comte wrote: 89 Points

  on the down hill side..
  not really any fruit here, balsamic vinegar, honey, overripe, blackish, dried plum, tobacco and leather, tomato leaves, past its prime once again..
  
  88+

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