TN: 2006 Felsina Berardenga Chianti Classico Riserva
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:46 pm
TN: 2006 Felsina Berardenga Chianti Classico Riserva
I’ve read mostly good notes on this wine and I concur. I had hoped to open my lone bottle with tomato-based pasta with sweet Italian sausages but last-minute laziness took over and we went with strip steak fryers for dinner, instead. The nose on this wine was savory, with some fresh meat and wood. Acidity was prominent and oak appears to be still quite intrusive at certain points. The fruit was evident, but enveloped within the savory components. I’m attaching a link to the TN that I posted on the regular, non-Riserva, version of this wine (plus some excellent insights by the regulars) and although the Riserva was a decent wine, I found the regular bottling to be the better one - perhaps, unfairly so because of the better food-wine match (iirc) with the regular bottling. Nevertheless, the Riserva still went OK wih the steaks. My rating is based on current drinking status, but somehow I think that the Riserva would be the better one after a few more bottle-aging years. One good thing going for the Riserva is its price, available at $21 at local stores here in NY. B+
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I’ve read mostly good notes on this wine and I concur. I had hoped to open my lone bottle with tomato-based pasta with sweet Italian sausages but last-minute laziness took over and we went with strip steak fryers for dinner, instead. The nose on this wine was savory, with some fresh meat and wood. Acidity was prominent and oak appears to be still quite intrusive at certain points. The fruit was evident, but enveloped within the savory components. I’m attaching a link to the TN that I posted on the regular, non-Riserva, version of this wine (plus some excellent insights by the regulars) and although the Riserva was a decent wine, I found the regular bottling to be the better one - perhaps, unfairly so because of the better food-wine match (iirc) with the regular bottling. Nevertheless, the Riserva still went OK wih the steaks. My rating is based on current drinking status, but somehow I think that the Riserva would be the better one after a few more bottle-aging years. One good thing going for the Riserva is its price, available at $21 at local stores here in NY. B+
http://www.bordeauxwineenthusiasts.com/ ... 6395#p6395