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2006 Salvatore Molettieri Taurasi Vigna Cinque Querce Riserva

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June 11, 2023 - $49

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RATINGS

95The Wine Advocate

Black cherries, licorice, incense, tobacco, spices burst... All the elements are in perfect balance and symmetry. Game, mocha, expresso, melted road tar and cloves are some of the many notes that are woven into the enveloping finish.

94+ Vinous / IWC

Expressive aromas of ripe red cherry, black plum, shoe polish, minerals and sweet spices. Sweet, broad and rich, but with enticing fresh minerality energizing the full-bodied middle palate. The wine's ripe red cherry and berry fruit flavors are complicated by an almost decadent floral element. Finishes with wonderfully lush, fine-grained tannins and lingering elements of pepper, cocoa and flint.

93Wine Spectator

A dark, compact red, with a foundation of fine tannins to the sappy blackberry, cherry pulp and damson plum fruit that's slow to shed hints of mocha, ash and espresso bean on the long finish.

REGION

Italy, Campania, Taurasi

Campania is on the southeastern coast of Italy, and the city of Naples is its commercial and cultural capital. Wine has always been produced in this hard-scrabble region, though the quality of those wines has traditionally not matched the wine quality elsewhere in Italy. Rich volcanic soils mean that the region easily grows everything from citrus and artichokes to nuts, and growing wine grapes has not been a priority historically. However in the last couple of decades forward-thinking producers and vineyard owners have focused on improving both their wines and Campania’s winemaking reputation, and the results are noteworthy. Campania was awarded its first DOCG appellation in 1991. It is the Taurasi DOCG, which grows primarily Aglianico, a native grape that can produce big, concentrated, complex red wines with layers of earthy flavors. There are 101,000 acres of vineyards in Campania, making it Italy’s ninth largest wine producing region, though only 2.8% of those vineyards are in DOC appellations. Nevertheless several excellent large producers and numerous boutique producers are now crafting well-reviewed red and white wines, all mostly from indigenous grapes. Besides Aglianico, the other most frequently planted red wine grapes are Coda de Volpe and Pedirosso. White grapes planted are Falanghina, Fiano and Greco. There are 18 DOCs in Campania.