2006 Castello di Gabbiano Chianti Classico Riserva DOCeG
I have been craving pasta in a light tomato sauce all week. Along with this craving has come the desire for a good Sangiovese. Well, tonight I am eating pasta... Pasta fagioli with pork belly, kale in a tomato sauce. Thanks to my girlfriend who is running the kitchen, I had some time to run to grab a bottle of wine.
Here we go... another attempt at a readable wine tasting note:
The color was darker than I expected: a hazy garnet core, flowing into a softer red with defined staining in the legs, I was thinking, "Isn't this supposed to be a red fruit grape?" I had to throw it in the decanter. Wow, this 2006 is still young! Needless to say, the red fruits are there. The penetrating red cherry, tart pomegranate and cranberry flowed smoothly into the intense dusty, chalky minerality. The phenolic structure on the nose was soft white pepper and licorice with a nice fennel vegetative quality.
On the palate, this translated into round, cherry, black raspberry and pomegranate acidity with a dusty mouthfeel. The cherry pit and rhubarb tannins were mellowed out by the sweeter oak influence, imparting notes of cinnamon, cardamom and some grippy tobacco. With a pretty big body and length on the tongue, this is a serious red-fruit wine... not a dainty, delicate red-fruit wine.
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