TN: 1959 Antonio Ferrari Solaria Jonica Puglia IGT (Italy, Puglia, Puglia IGT)

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  • 1959 Antonio Ferrari Solaria Jonica Puglia IGT - Italy, Puglia, Puglia IGT (4/17/2015)
    Bizarre. Opaque crimson. Nose is quite mature and complex, a hybrid of Madeira-like root beer, sourdough, almond, and apricot scents with Port-like notes of prune and alcohol. All in all I found the smell fairly off-putting. The taste is much simpler, quite sweet, just raisin and residual sugar. This seemed disjointed to me. I’m under the impression it was the product of a stuck fermentation, and I guess I can now see why such wines are usually considered defective. (86 pts.)

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Did you buy this recently? I am fascinated by the fact that these things are still floating around.

My opinion 9 yrs ago wasn’t very high either though it was better after a few days. (That label pic is from my back porch.)

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Yes, I just picked it up last week. They weren’t bottled that long ago, right? I thought they were just sitting in a vat forever because the winery didn’t know what to do with the juice and didn’t want to pour it down the drain.

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IWM, Dan? I just received two of these.

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Well, I was told they were “just bottled” (with the same story) when I bought some 10 yrs ago.

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At least some of it was bottled sometime prior to 2002: PRODOTTI - Solaria Jonica 1959 - Cantine Antonio Ferrari

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IWM indeed. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the provenance; I just don’t think I like the style. By “not that long ago” I meant, like, closer to now than to 1959.