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Antonio Galloni - Wine Advocate
The estate's top bottling, the 2005 Cepparello, is
another strong effort. Classy and elegant, it possesses well-delineated
vibrant dark red fruit intermingled with toasted oak and minerals.
It remains quite fresh and will require a few years of bottle age
to develop its full range of aromas and flavors. That said, it is
a smaller-scaled Cepparello that should mature earlier than the
superb '04. Cepparello is 100% Sangiovese aged in French oak. Once
again, Paolo De Marchi has turned out a superlative wine.
Anticipated maturity: '10 - '20. |