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98+ Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
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The 2016 Fontalloro is the best vintage of this landmark wine that I have tasted thus far. This is a very elegant vintage, with more volume in the mouth and precise notes of tar, licorice, camphor ash, resin and Indian spice. In a race between the highly competitive 2015 and 2016 vintages, I give a slight advantage to this wine. The warmer 2015 vintage shows more richness and exuberant fruit. However, this wine from 2016 offers a more focused and chiseled delivery. I am hopeful that this wine will continue to evolve and sharpen as it ages in the bottle. This is a beautiful wine to put aside in your cellar for ten years or more.
98 James Suckling -
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Amazing aromas of licorice, wet earth, orange peel and lavender. Full body, tight and super compact and polished. Goes on for minutes. Clearly great. Better in 2021, but already a star.
96 Vinous -
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The 2016 Fontalloro is bold, hearty and deeply flavored, with all of the Sangiovese wildness that is so typical of Fontalloro. Ripe dark cherry, grilled herbs, smoke, leather, game and incense are some of the many aromas and flavors that open up in a potent, virile Fontalloro loaded with personality and character. In so many ways, 2016 is THE archetype of what Fontalloro is - a Sangiovese that is a bit wild and unruly but also full of charm.
Technical Details
- BlendSangiovese
- CountryItaly
- RegionTuscany
- AppellationTuscany IGT
- Alcohol13.5%
Felsina Fontalloro Tuscany IGT 2016
Sangiovese Blends | Italy
WA98+, JS98, VN96
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Unreal. Fontalloro!! From the epically fantastic 2016 vintage...do whatever you must to secure a few - we have only 10 cases!! The best Fontalloro EVER!
I’m trying to convince myself not to just buy all of this for myself. WOW!!
Felsina began in 1966 and by 1990 was firmly established as a star on the rise. Its Rancia cuvee and, more importantly perhaps, the Fontalloro are super-collectible and age spectacularly up to 10+ years. Felsina offers some of the finest values in the entire world of wine. 2016 is of course an EPIC vintage that checks all the boxes -- and our PRICE!
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About the Producer
It was 1966 when Domenico Poggiali Felsina took the courageous leap and bought the estate at a time when Italian viticulture was struggling. In the second half of the 1970s Giuseppe Mazzocolin entered the family business paving the way for the beginnings of their international recognition. Their friendship with Luigi Veronelli and collaboration with oenologist Franco Bernabei shaped a developmental strategy that has proven itself extremely coherent, starting with the wines of 1983, the first year of Fontalloro and of Rancia. With Domenico and Giuseppe Poggiali at the helm, an extraordinary development began which, since 1990, also includes Giovanni Poggiali, the oldest of Giuseppe's three sons.