Zanobini Chianti Classico Le Lame

Nose: barnyard, sweet berry-fruit and cinnamon. Taste: barnyard, herbs (sage?) and cinnamon with raspberries and red berries. At the first day quite light and without much concentration, at the fourth remarkably more concentrated. Nevertheless quite agreeable. 86-87.

Kept under condition 2 (see my profile). Popped and poured. Nose: good barnyard. Taste: The fruit has lost some of its liveliness in favour of the secondary notes, but there was a probably optimal balance between them. Rather light bodied, but fresh. Mature now and probably at its peak. Fell away against hot pasta with cheese, but at the third day really agreeable with duck with orange, sage, garlick and cinnamon. 86-87.

Kept under condition two since 2005 (see my profile). Color: ruby, with ruby rims. Taste: the first impression is of barnyard, which didn’t disturb. Slightly tannic still, which almost fully diminished over half an hour in the glass. Fruit came up afterwards. Mushrooms, some earth and laurel. After almost exactly ten years after the vintage this wine appears to get in a mature state. Nice and with its own character. 86.

Color: a little brown. The quality of this wine varied rather much with the temperature and the time in the glass. This bottle was quite unbalanced, with the acidity a little to prominent and disjoint. It seems over its top. Best with pizza at the second day. After having drunk three bottles of this wine, I conclude that it never has reached the level of the two bottles we had of the vintage 2001 (I believe), that were both very …

Kept under condition 2 for seven years (see my profile). Decanted for three hours. Color: ruby. Taste: red berries, clear acidity, tannins almost resolved. Almost no complexity. This wine still seemed quite young (see my former note). At the third day clear brett in the nose, secondary flavours in the taste. 83, at the third day 83-84.

Opened just before drinking, not decanted. Nose: only after 15 minutes it opened quite well with a certain richness. Taste: at first rather astringent and closed. Together with the nose it opened up with a certain depth, richness and hints of spices, among which sage. After another 30 minutes it seemed to close again, apart from a taste of cherry-liqueur. At the second day a fruity finish impressed as well as the beginning of a good, tasty body. I think …