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2007 Altesino Rosso di Montalcino
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2007 Altesino Rosso di Montalcino

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

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , October 2009

($30) Medium-dark ruby. Light red berry and spicy plum aromas are complicated by riper hints of balsamic vinegar and coffee. Fairly intense, sweet and pliant, with fresh flavors of blackberry, raspberry syrup, iron and minerals. The finish has lift and length and a delicately smoky, almost flinty quality. After a spell of less than impressive wines a few years ago, Altesino seems back on track, and this is an enjoyable, well-made red wine. (Winebow Inc., New York, NY)

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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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