1997 Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva Villa Antinori

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 86.6 points

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  1/28/2024 - Llama Likes this wine: 80 Points

  Color: Brick
  
  Nose: brandied cherry, violets
  
  Palate: earth, stewed plum, golden raisin

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  12/2/2023 - NoahCap wrote:

  Perfect cork and fill. Significant bricking in the glass, though nowhere near all brown. Nose is a nice blast of aged sour cherry, tobacco, and earth- it smelled great. But the fruits were faded in the mouth, lots of earth and cigar wrapper flavors, which I don't mind, but an unpleasant rancid soy sauce on the finish that I was not a fan of at all. This bottle was drinkable, nice with some pasta, but was at it's best 10+ yrs ago.

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  11/25/2022 - smestad.eirik@gmail.com Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Earthy, animalistic, tabacco on the nose. Supprisingly pure cherry fruit and well balanced.

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  2/17/2021 - n.rome wrote:

  Still active on the nose but faded on the palate. Still drinkable but past its prime

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  10/10/2020 - Volleyball wrote: 89 Points

  Definitely past its best drinking window, but still very enjoyable and, with a stiff acid spine, a nice drop with Italian food.
  
  Medium garnet color shading to brick and showing clear signs of age.
  
  Quite a prominent aroma of leather, cedar and cloves. No fruit and a bit dusty.
  
  High acid immediately hits you on the palate. With medium strength tannins, the wine retains good structure. Quite a bit of red cherry to the taste, as well as the notes in he aroma. Fairly full bodied and quite a long finish. Very nice.

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