Fontodi - Flaccianello della Pieve 2007 (750ml)
Price: $155.00
| Producer | Fontodi |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Vintage | 2007 |
| Sku | 151381 |
| Size | 750ml |
Vinous: 96 Points
I tasted the 2007 Flaccianello a number of times from barrel and tank before it was bottled. The 2007 is a bold extroverted Flaccianello that sweeps across the palate with sensual layers of candied cherries violets spices and minerals. Dark mentholated notes develop in the glass adding further dimensions of inner sweetness weight and complexity to this Tuscan thoroughbred. While so many 2007s are forward and open Flaccianello remains muscular taut and in need of significant cellaring. Still the round enveloping finish augurs extremely well for the future. Flaccianello is a selection of the estate's finest Sangiovese and is aged in French oak.
vWine Spectator: 95 Points
Fading to reddish brown at edge this displays a bouquet of eucalyptus medicinal herbs licorice and leather. Rich powerful it's just coming out of it's shell with muscular tannins on finish and a long aftertaste of leather underbrush and mineral. -- Non-blind Flaccianello vertical (July 2014). Best from 2016 through 2028. 5000 cases made 2000 cases imported. - Bruce Sanderson
Wine Advocate: 91 Points
The 2007 Flaccianello della Pieve is showing signs of decline and I have shortened the suggested drinking window here as a result. In fact I have recently had the opportunity to taste this vintage in other contexts and I came away with a similar impression. This was a hot vintage and the various phases of phenolic ripening moved quickly along. The grapes were beautiful at harvest time showing naturally rich concentration succulence and structure. Today some 12 years after the harvest the wine has loosened up and flattened out. There are slightly oxidized notes on the bouquet with dried prune and fig followed by spice old tobacco and leather. This wine is open and mature so if you have a bottle I suggest you pull it out from the cellar soon.
