By: Wineaux DLynn P
Continuing on this wonderful journey of Super Tuscans, emmerges a wine from Fabrizio Bianchi, the Castello di Monsanto Tinscvil from 1985. Stories claim he was the first to add Cabernet to Sangiovese(though the della Rochettas may say different) and then marry the highly extracted juice with French barrique. Either way, if you get your hands on one of the older bottlings, you will truly be amazed. So how does a wine like this still show so much character. Loads of coffee, cedar, leather, and compost, with fruit notes of dried cherries, plums, and cassis. The mid-palate was reminiscent of pencil shavings and molasses, and finished with so much tannin and clove and nutmeg nuances from the wood, one would have sworn it were 10 years old. Tinscvil, meaning offering to the daughter of Jupiter, certainly has the offering of my palate and time. Until we meet again.
Awesome pull Simon.
Ciao for now.