Ok. This is a good wine. Well made. Tasty. But boring. There’s no ‘Wow’ factor. This could have been a decent Bordeaux for all you could tell. I’m just not a ‘super tuscan’ kind of a guy, I want wine to be of a place. Nebbiolo and Sangiovese for me from Italy and many others, just no Cab Sauv (or other Bordeaux grapes) please…
Bill. I get it. And I like them also. But I want my new world wine from the new world and I want my old world grapes from the old world. Yeah, I know. No reason for that. I just like it…
Admit I’ve moved markedly to traditional end of the spectrum as my Italian wine drinking and collecting has evolved, but I’ve always liked Solaia and Tignanello, a good deal more than the Bolgheri wines, have always found a bright swath of Chianti Classico acidity/minerality that gave these wines some tension and distinctiveness and connected them to Chianti… 90 was quite a warm vintage, for the times, and I haven’t been back to Solaia in several years, wonder whether age is setting in. I must say that a 79 Solaia at long closed Da Noi, a Pinchiorri spin off, remains one of my most memorable Tuscan wines, if not the epiphany of my first exposure to Pergole Torte, a 79 from a mag poured generously at Pinchiorri on the same trip, I believe. As an aside, I remember how hard it was to spend $75 for the 90 Solaia and the 90 Giacosa Santo Stefano Riserva on release…