Carpineto Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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Winemaker Notes
Ruby red with orange reflections. On the nose, it is clean and intense, with complex hints of spices, licorice, vanilla and cherries. Full, rich and persistent with a great, elegant tannin structure and finish.
Pair with roasts, game, and Tuscan cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is a solid cabernet sauvignon with a full body. The reserve tannins nicely frame the wine and give it plenty of currant and blackberry character with some sage and parsley undertones. Starting to be drinkable now and will age nicely.
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Wine Enthusiast
The restrained, reduced nose on this wine offers tar, roses and coffee, with a certain freshness from wild fennel and wet rocks. The palate stays savory with more tar and rocks, but also dense fruit including figs, raisins, dark cherries and chocolate. Assertive tannins are propped up by similarly substantial acid.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Farnito is a darkly saturated and penetrating wine that is not overextracted per se. It's just really black in personality. The mouthfeel is polished and nicely evolved (tasted now eight years after the harvest) with blackberry, wild plum and raisin. There is a smoky mineral quality that fits with the finely textured tannins. This wine offers old school elegance.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2016 Carpineto Farnito is authentic from start to finish and shows how well Cabernet Sauvignon performs in Tuscany. TASTING NOTES: This wine delivers aromas and flavors of red and black fruits, with hints of dried leaves and savory earth. Try it with clay pot lamb. (Tasted: July 3, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Decanter
Signs of development, with savoury tobacco and leather, dotted with blackcurrant notes. Bright and fresh with fine-grained tannin.
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Wine Spectator
Fragrant, featuring black cherry and black currant fruit at the center, with cedar and oak spice. Open, finishing with moderately dense, dusty tannins. Drink now.
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Carpineto is a partnership between the award winning winemaker Giovanni C. Sacchet and the dynamic Antonio M. Zaccheo, offering a product line of wines spanning from the most prestigious Tuscan DOCG appellations to varietal specific wines of great structure as well as innovative proprietary blends. The winery is widely regarded as one of the quality leaders on the Italian winemaking landscape, exporting the majority of the wine production to over 30 countries worldwide. About 90% of Carpineto's wine production is red wine, 65% of this being "riserva" wines that are aged three or more years before their release date. Since Carpineto generally ages their red wines six to twelve months longer than the minimum time required by DOCG appellation rules the cellars hold at least three consecutive vintages of wine at any given time. This long aging period has allowed Carpineto to build a reputation for high quality and consistency, vintage after vintage.
Carpineto was established in 1967 in the small historic settlement of Dudda, in the township of Greve in Chianti, with the mission of making world class Chianti Classico. This was a radical departure from the marketplace of the Sixties, when the industry was focused on the production of Chianti in the traditional winemaking style sold in the typical "fiasco" bottle. The visionary founders, captured by the Tuscan landscape, the soil and the climate, immediately saw the untapped potential this land possessed to produce great wines. By applying modern viticultural and winemaking methods they set their goals far beyond the quality standards traditional viticultural and winemaking methods were yielding at the time. With this premise, the unyielding determination of their youth, and an uncompromising focus on making the best wines this land could produce the Carpineto mission of marrying tradition with innovation had set sail.
The Carpineto winemaking style is to deliver wines that are full bodied, complex and fruity in character, with a round, supple tannin structure and a long, persistent, clean finish. Despite their approachability upon release, Carpineto's red wines are designed for long cellar aging of twenty years or longer.
Legendary in Italy for its Renaissance art and striking landscape, Tuscany is also home to many of the country’s best red wines. Sangiovese reigns supreme here, as either the single varietal, or a dominant player, in almost all of Tuscany’s best.
A remarkable Chianti, named for its region of origin, will have a bright acidity, supple tannins and plenty of cherry fruit character. From the hills and valleys surrounding the medieval village of Montalcino, come the distinguished and age-worthy wines based on Brunello (Sangiovese). Earning global acclaim since the 1970s, the Tuscan Blends are composed solely of international grape varieties or a mix of international and Sangiovese. The wine called Vine Nobile di Montepulciano, composed of Prognolo Gentile (Sangiovese) and is recognized both for finesse and power.