2610, 2011
Cantina Tollo Listed In Wine & Spirits As Top Co-Op
CANTINA TOLLO "Located in Central Italy's Abruzzo region, Cantina Tollo is a first-level co-op, where the farmers are also the owners of the company. It was founded in 1960 [...]
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“A ripe and fresh nose displays liqueur-like aromas of red and dark berry fruit cut with plenty of earthiness. There is good vibrancy and lovely detail to the rustic but concentrated mid-weight flavors that possess reasonably good depth and length. This should drink well young but should also offer a year or two of upside development potential.” - Bottled at the end of March, the Beaune 1er Cru Les Greves has a fine bouquet of red currant, raspberry and even a faint touch of pine needles on the well-defined nose that expresses the terroir well. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp black rather than red fruit. The tannins are just a little tough at the moment, but there is sufficient fruit to keep it balanced and vibrant. This is a charming Les Greves that deserves just a couple of years in bottle.
- The wine sports ripe red currant and wild strawberry aromas mixed with incense. The palate is vibrant and fresh on the entry with perhaps just a touch of CO2. It exerts a firm grip, demonstrates good weight with fine sucrosity on the finish.
- A brooding and quite somber nose speaks of earthy and floral dark berry fruit aromas dissolve gracefully into rich, intense and focused medium-bodied flavors that possess fine complexity on the firm and somewhat linear finish.
- Displays a wonderful texture, purity and sappiness that will pleas everyone, one of the keys was not to extract too much, in order to extract red fruit flavors from the grape.
- “An exceptionally fresh and pretty nose features notes of lemon peel on the white and yellow orchard fruit scents. There is good volume and plenty of mid-palate fat to the generous and fleshy mid-weight flavors that display fine length and reasonably good depth as well for a wine at this level. An excellent all-around house white.”