Boscarelli Il Nocio Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2013
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Ideally pairs with red meat and game, very rich, structured and important dishes.
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Offering a beam of pure cherry, currant and iron flavors, this red hits all the right notes and has the backbone to develop. Tightly wound now, but decanting or a few years in the cellar will help this relax. Earth and tobacco elements gird the finish. Best from 2020 through 2033.
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Made entirely with Sangiovese, this full-bodied red opens with aromas of wild berry, exotic spice, aromatic herb and a whiff of fragrant blue flower. It's elegant and structured, with a youthful tension that underscores juicy wild cherry, raspberry compote, cinnamon and a hint of pipe tobacco. Fresh acidity lends balance while fine-grained tannins provide polished support. It's already tempting but will develop even more complexity with cellaring. Drink 2018–2033.
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Il Nocio is a five-acre plot of massal-propagated sangiovese vines that Boscarelli began bottling on its own in 1991. Grapes are harvested in different passes based on the predominant soil types (clay or sand) and vinified separately, aged in tonneaux for the first year, then in larger casks. The long, moderate 2013 growing season yielded a wine with lifted aromas of cherry blossom and tree bark. The tannins feel broad and powerful, encasing a core of pure red-cherry fruit infused with enough vitality to outlast those tannins. This needs a good five years of cellaring.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This wine represents a pure expression of Sangiovese. The 2013 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Il Nocio is a broad and compelling red wine with an interesting sense of volume and length. The wine's mouthfeel is like an hourglass, with a moment of largeness followed by a pause and then more volume once again on the close. Aromas include dried cherry fruit, blackberry and moist earth.
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Among Italy's elite red grape varieties, Sangiovese has the perfect intersection of bright red fruit and savory earthiness and is responsible for the best red wines of Tuscany. While it is best known as the chief component of Chianti, it is also the main grape in Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and reaches the height of its power and intensity in the complex, long-lived Brunello di Montalcino. Somm Secret—Sangiovese doubles under the alias, Nielluccio, on the French island of Corsica where it produces distinctly floral and refreshing reds and rosés.
This significant Tuscan village—not to be confused with the red grape of the same name widely grown in Abruzzo and the Marche regions—was home to one of the first four Italian DOCGs granted in 1980.
Based on the Sangiovese grape (here called Prugnolo Gentile), the village’s prized wine called Vino Nobile di Montepulciano ranks stylistically in between Chianti Classico, for its finesse, and Brunello di Montalcino for its power. With a deep ruby color, heavy concentration and a firm structure given by the village's heavy, cool clay soils, most Vino Nobile di Montepulciano will demand some bottle age.