Querciabella, Maremma Toscana, Mongrana

Superbe, tout simplement!

2009 vintage

Medium bodied. Firm tannins. Oak, vanilla and cherries.

2020 vintage

Excellent value for money. Comparable to a Roso di Montalcino. Beautiful tart cherry and nice acidity. Overall, a very pleasurable bottle.

2020 vintage

Like a big warm hug from Tuscany. Dark cherry, touches of toast dark wild cherry. Subtle little heat on the finish and long, LONG lasting on the tongue. Bargain at $22, amazing I got it for sale at $13!

2020 vintage

(Tasted Blind): Light purple in colour. A bright nose redolent in sour cherry, lightly steeped raspberries and vivid strawberry accented by a cigar box note. A well-extracted, full-bodied wine with excellent red fruit purity and sandy texture with a mid-palate richness dusted with spice and a gorgeous finesse and long finish edged by compact, chalky tannins.

2020 vintage

Рубиновый цвет средней плотности, прозрачное. В аромате чёрные ягоды, молотый перец, уголь, табак, дерево, пряные ноты, кофе американо, кожа. Во вкусе среднее тело, кислотность выше среднего, умеренные танины. 88/100

2020 vintage

Built around a core of the most delicious cherry fruit. Very pure with a touch of earth. Tannins are supple and supportive and it has just the right amount of chew. Perfumed fruits linger.

2020 vintage

Encore meilleur un vin étonnant!

2009 vintage

Last bottle - some age on rim - red wine aromas probably cherry and some vanilla - medium length well balanced red with cherry / blueberries, soft tannins and good acidity to make it a perfect good value food wine.

2009 vintage

very regrettable. still fruit but it smells awful like rotting cabbage and tastes like cheap fruit that's been messed with in an attempt to make it palatable.

2009 vintage

Très équilibré, un margaux toscan tellement il est doux et soyeux. Ouvert une heure avant.

2009 vintage

Great QPR. Very nice table wine but with more elegance, substance, fruit and depth than a typical table wine. Good with food. Rich medium palate and good length. Well integrated, no hard notes. Velvety and smooth with a medium body. Very easy to drink and accessible, maybe a bit too luscious and ripe yet not clawing or overly sweet. Good fruit. I like and would recommend at price point. Have a 2010 that am now curious about.

2009 vintage

We lunched on darn good, neighbourhood style food at SPQR in San Francisco. Given the eclectic and varied wine list, we had to try a few we did not know. Juicy-fruit forward, very smooth blend of Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

2009 vintage

Nariz que evocou cerejas, um discreto caramelado da madeira e toque herbáceo, tendo um suficiente frescor com sugestão mineral. Corpo leve a médio e uma decente acidez em bom equilíbrio com a fruta.. Agradável para o dia a dia, mas beba logo; fruta e frescor talvez na iminência da decadência.

2009 vintage

Appealing, accessible, welcoming. Well-balanced, silky, a touch of spice but nothing too pushy. Neither self-effacing nor stealing the show; good with food.

2009 vintage

Querciabella tasting seminar (Osaka) : Your budget Supertuscan. Mongrana is a nice wine, very pure with red plum and cherry aromas. The oak is not heavy and gives just a spicy hint. In the mouth it tastes very fresh, the acidity is pronounced while body and tannin are medium. I was expecting it to be a little bit more intense on the palate, tannins are very delicate, but it can be somewhat sharp. I would see it well with some …

2009 vintage

Consistent with previous. Slightly stronger bloody/meaty element than I remembered. Caressingly soft in texture; G described it as 'like velvet.'

2009 vintage

Medium bodied, velvet texture, the comfort of Claret with the chewy cherry lift of Sangiovese. Very nice, good with food (in this case, rare roast beef).

2009 vintage

Good wine, tart cherry, medium tannin, lighter body, good spice. Got a whiff of damp cardboard, so this may have been slightly flawed, but it was barely noticeable.

2009 vintage

Ordered off the wine list at MKT in San Francisco. Dark garnet with a little brick tint. Nice earthy nose with some smoke and leather along with the blackberry, black cherry, and vanilla. Medium palate with juicy blackberry, black cherry, and minerals. Very good finish. Brilliant acidity. Mild tannins. Extremely food-friendly. Good QPR.

2009 vintage

Silky smooth on the palate, rich yet balanced, great (Italian) food wine but supple enough to drink on its own. VG.

2009 vintage

maybe this wine is still too young, showed some promise just after opening, but completely closed down on the second and third day, it's a difficult blend, that's for sure

2009 vintage

Great little wine for any Italian dinner table. Not overly complex but shows a good mix of red fruits with just a touch of oak and tannins on the finish. $17 = good value.

2009 vintage

Very drinkable Tuscan IGT. Herby dark fruit nose, with well balanced greenish tannins in a cherry dominated fruit mix. May develop more complexity with age but easy to drink now. WoFW 12.5/20

2009 vintage

We had a couple of bottles at dinner - excellent choice for a broad group of non-winos. Lighter style, balanced, yet fruity enough to appeal to everyone. Worked both on its own and with the food. Very nice at its price point.

2009 vintage

Consistent note

2009 vintage

Sweet dark fruit and vanilla. Easy to drink and enjoy and just has enough acidity and a little magic sprinkle of Italian dust to make it agreable.

2009 vintage

Aromas and flavors of dried strawberries and cedar. Too round and lacking the acidity I like from Tuscan wines - too much of a cab/merlot/international style.

2009 vintage

The wine was bright medium to dark ruby in colour. It offered red & dark fruits, sweet spices and some earthy notes on the nose. On the palate the medium-bodied wine was juicy, with cherry, red & black currant, some blackberry, mild spices, low to medium tannins, very good acidity and good length. Easy-drinking. Great QPR. Drink now.

2009 vintage

open for two hours: nose - light oak; taste - light-to-medium-bodied mouth feel, tastes of spice and leather rather than fruit, offers up a medium-length finish consisting of slightly-sour chalk and anise; overall: pleasantly rounded Old World style but lacking in fruitiness -- for an Italian beauty at the same price point (approx. $15.50), I would opt instead for Allegrini Palazzo della Torre.

2009 vintage

Expressive nose of black cherry, currants, tobacco and leather. Medium body of black currants, cherry, cedar and spice. Medium plus drying finish.

2009 vintage

delicious

2005 vintage

Interesting to see how this ages. It's still a good bottle for the money, and while it's thinning, it is still changing in interesting ways.

2005 vintage

d2, great flavors, bit acidic, brett blew off form d1, still funky, smoke, wood, almonds

2005 vintage

maybe it was just off. a slight sour taste.

2005 vintage

Again - very similar notes to the prior wine - dark and ripe with notes of tar and iodine over dark plum and cherry fruit. Same dark ripe notes on the palate - still strong with firm acidity and tannins but a really good food wine. Complex with lots of character - very good.

2005 vintage

Tne quintessential 89-point wine: well-made, flavorful, and smooth, but lacking that extra bit of complexity that would make it really special. Great with pizza.

2005 vintage

The 05 Mongrana has developed a bit of funk in the last year or so, and it's still a dark, rich super-tuscan blend that continues to be a good buy. The current stink makes it interesting.

2005 vintage

Lively red fruits with moderate grip and a supple roundness on the midpalate and finish - must be the merlot influence. Very nice with a simple homemade pizza.

2005 vintage

drank over two nights. first night - lots of fruit at first opening. second night much more restrained. was not too heavy with smooth finish.

2005 vintage

opened and drank with dinner [eggplant w/tomato, ricotta, basil sauce. was a little rough; should have let it open first. the second night it was much better. slight hint of fruit(?) up front with smooth finish.

2005 vintage

For $15 this is hard to beat and a great advert for Italian wine. Slightly funky, but with sweet fruit and notes of herbs and wood on the nose. Medium bodied, sweet cherry and currant fruit, slightly sour with a definite acidic bite, but also some creaminess and richness on the finish. A great food wine, even a bit of bread and cheese does this wine wonders. Wish i had 11 more not just one....

2005 vintage

Bretty, dirty, else w/good fruit, firm strucgture stilll drinkable, d2 & 3 seem much better, clean, good (5.5)

2005 vintage

Fairly grapey with good depth, some leather and earth as well. Bright and fresh out of the barrel kind of smell to it.Sweet fruit and leather and tobacco on the palate with a decent lengthed juicy palate. Great QPR, but give it another 6 mos - 1 yr to trade in a bit of grapey youth for a touch of development.

2005 vintage

Rock solid wine. I really can't imagine anyone who enjoys European wines not enjoying this. It's extremely smooth, it's got silky tannins, and some nice flavor. It's not complex or interesting enough to break the 90 threshold, but it's darn close and I would (and have) buy again. 89+

2005 vintage

Mossy funk and berry on the nose. Smooth leathery tanins, cherry and well balanced acidity. Nice mouthfeel. Great value.

2005 vintage

Has a fair amount of tar, brett, some decent fruit, ok

2005 vintage

The Other Italy (Farpointe Cellar) : The nose had some nice funk, mixed with red berries and vanilla. The palate was soft, with red fruit, cedar, and a bit of funk. The finish was good.

2005 vintage

Well structured, nice flavor, nothing too extravagant or special.

2005 vintage

Very good for near time consumption -- next couple of years. Not over the top but just well made sangiovese with typical Querciabella balanced acidity to match with food. Excellent value at <$16. Worthy of a case purchase if you have room.

2005 vintage

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