Marchesi Antinori - Solaia Toscana 1997 (750ml)
Price: $400.00
| Producer | Marchesi Antinori |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Subregion | Toscana IGT |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Sku | 1559210 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Enthusiast: 97 Points
Top-echelon with a stunning purity and depth of layered fruit both sensuous and intellectually appealing. The dark cherry and plum core is oak-enveloped with rarely seen seamlessness while the big but supple mouthfeel belies the wine's profound power and structure. A classic effort marked by perfect fruit-to-acid balance firm refined tannins and a seemingly endless finish. Editors' Choice.
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Dark ruby red color. Currant Christmas cake mint and spices. Full-bodied with ultrafine tannins and a long long finish. This is balanced and refined. It's layered and beautiful. This is still tight and not giving much. A few more years will yield a lot. Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese.--1997 Italian blind retrospective. Best after 2009. 7000 cases made.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The unfiltered 1997 Solaia (75% Cabernet Sauvignon 20% Sangiovese and 5% Cabernet Franc from a single 25-acre vineyard) is aged in 100% new French oak. There are 8000 cases of the 1997. The sensational opaque blue/purple-colored 1997 exhibits a complex nose of cedar spice box cassis and subtle oak. With yields of only 30 hectoliters per hectare and malolactic fermentation in barrel (a la Tignanello) this wine reveals extraordinary concentration a thick viscous texture yet no sense of heaviness or ponderousness. It is a thrilling Solaia to consume over the next two decades. If a first-growth Pauillac were made in Tuscany this would be it!
Vinous: 95 Points
For many years the 1997 Solaia was super-concentrated. Actually it still is pretty intense but over the last few years some of the baby fat has begun to melt away revealing a wine with tons of nuance. The 1997 clearly belongs in this flight of milestones. This is another memorable Solaia with no signs of fading.
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