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1999 Altesino Alte d'Altesi
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1999 Altesino Alte d'Altesi

Producer: Altesino
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Sangiovese
Origin: Italy
Region: Tuscany

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wood for the moment
06/12/2003
by Blais10542083
The wine is quite closed on the nose for the moment, some fruits, but not that much. On the mouth, the wine is pretty tanic which is a weakness, because all the other aspects remain hiden. Give it time but it looks to me to be a blockbuster and nothing very interesting. It gives a good impression in a wine challenge, but ...

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Sangiovese

The trademark of wines from Tuscany, and especially those from the region of Chianti, was once the fiasco. This straw-colored flask may carry associations of lengthy rustic meals out on the portico of a villa in the Tuscan countryside, but this romantic reverie must be interrupted with a burst of reality...
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