This review is from Vesper and her husband - he hasn't given a name, so we'll call him "Mr. Vesper."
--- Vesper & Mr. Vesper ---
This wine was purchased on sale at $17 - regular $22ish.
Nose: dried cherry, untanned leather, sun-dried grape tun, white pepper on tail.
Palate: front - sour dried cherry, middle - cigar box, cherry but less obviously dried, concentrated, and perhaps soured.
To say that this wine is well-balanced would be an act of desperation. It might be a reasonable buy at $12; but at $17, even on sale, it feels like the sort of mistake which happens at a previously untried restaurant on a sunnily optimistic afternoon. This wine strikes three notes, and they don't add up to anything more than a dissonant chord.
Joint rating: 2.5/5. We may be missing subtlety, so let's say 3/5. Generously. Okay, maybe too generously.
Price: $17.84
Score: 85
Value: 3/5
Region: Italy, Chianti
Grape: Sangiovese
Tasted: March 2009
UPC: 8028114000138
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