2016 Contrada Chiappemacine
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Score 90/100 · Drink 2019-2030, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate, Dec 2018
Showing a dark color with medium saturation, the 2016 Contrada C delivers dark berry flavors with balanced spice, tar and smoke at the edges. From the Contrada Chiappemacine, this is a steady, slightly undertone expression from Andrea Franchetti. This wine is elegant and tight with firm tannins that are on the astringent side. Compared to other Contrada wines in this series, you get good power, extract and density here. Only 3,696 bottles were produced.
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90
90/100
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
About the producer
Passopisciaro
Tenuta di Passopisciaro is the Etna estate owned by Andrea Franchetti, one of Italy’s pioneering winemakers who founded the Super Tuscan estate Tenuta di Trinoro, before becoming instrumental in Mount Etna’s wine renaissance with his Passopisciaro estate.