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2006 Viticcio Chianti Classico Riserva
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2006 Viticcio Chianti Classico Riserva

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

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90 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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very good, but not the expected greatness
06/02/2011
by lev96
I opened the Viticcio last night with pork sausage and peppers. I figured it should have been a perfect match. Though I liked it, I was slightly disappointed considering it was #35 on WS top 100 list. Still, I'd give it 4 stars. It had a nice spiciness for a chianti, good balance and plenty of nuances.

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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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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