Terre di Talamo, Maremma Toscana, Toscana Per Cecco

This surprised me in quite a pleasant way. I opened it simply because I'm making room in my cellar for better stuff, and clearing out a few bottles here and there by "tasting" to my heart's content. This 100% petit verdot has been passed over on many occasions, to my benefit today. The cork was pristine. Wine color is translucent red with a rusty-clear edge, implying some age. The nose is quite nice, with a spicy quality, plums, black cherries, …

Dark ruby red in color. After two hours in the decanter blueberry and herb notes on nose. The alcohol on nose subsided as well. Blueberry jam flavor, nice body with lots of tannins on palate. Lip smacking finish. Best to wait a bit on this wine.

Purchased recently at half price: not usually the kind of thing I go for, but I was enticed by the discount and the fact that this is 100% Petit Verdot. An Italian Petit Verdot??? You don't get to try that every day! Despite the fact that this varietal is known for its aggressive tannins, this wine was really ripe and fruity, soft and nearly tannin free. This grape's expression in Italy must be very different than in Bordeaux. To me, …

100% Petit Verdot. Dark nose of ripe blackberry and violets. Full-bodied palate echoes the nose. Firm fine tannins and medium acidity. Quite the surprise from Tuscany where the “Supers” are often blends. Very approachable for this variety. A wonderful compliment to beef dishes and hard cheeses. Drink now through 2027.

Good wine light tannins slightly tart very dry finish

Totally respectable, but at least 10 bucks too expensive. Round, raw red and black fruit, nice caramel finish. Tastes young, could be a solid notch better in 3 - 5 years. Nicely crafted, not changing the world, interesting experiment with petit verdot. Very good.

Seriously overpriced for what it is. A decent wine, but at the $30 price point (I bought it by mistake, pulled wrong bottle from bin) I would expect so much more.

If we were in Tuscany bicycling by a farm and the farmer offered a buona sera as he was getting his mail, and the hello developed into a half understood but beautiful conversation in broken English and Italian, and the farmer invited us in and introduced us to his wife who was cooking dinner, and they compelled us to join them, and they pulled out a large jug of their estate grown wine and it was this wine, we would …