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Fontodi Flaccianello Della Pieve 2008 (750ML)
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97 JS / 96+ WA / 94 VM / 94 WI / 94 FS / 93 WS
The pureness of fruit is so intense here. It's also so clean and beautiful. The wine shows fabulous aromas of flowers, blueberries, and raspberries. It’s full-bodied, with chocolate, licorice, and plums. The texture is very velvety. This is a wine in near perfect proportions. -James Suckling
Here's a vintage that came out of left field and knocked me flat with delight. The 2008 Flaccianello della Pieve is just my kind of Sangiovese with a gorgeous level of silkiness and smoothness, all followed by tangy menthol freshness and balsam herb that give so much momentum to the vertical lift and drive of the bouquet. The wine's complexity is enhanced by drying mineral notes with barbecue smoke and mesquite. There is a slight hint of ripeness here that you taste in the sweetness of the tannins and the satiny nature of the finish. I love the balance between the wine's natural acidity and the softer side of its fruit.- Monica Larner, the Wine Advocate
The 2008 Flaccianello della Pieve is quite pretty, even if it is a bit buttoned up. It possesses lovely perfume and sweet Pinot-like fruit backed by acidity and structure that are unquestionably those of Sangiovese. Today the 2008 impresses for its energy and verve. It should be a fabulous wine to drink in another few years, once the tannins settle down a bit. This is yet another 2008 that has grown considerably in stature over the last year.-Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media
This 2008 Fontodi Flaccianello delle Piave starts off with some smoky, sweet tobacco and spice aromas. On the palate there are lots of very fine, silty-textured tannins giving a firm outline to the wine. It is a little less richly textured in the middle whereas the 2006 had more mid-palate concentration but there is a very long, very savory finish plus a little austerity to the wine. In 2000 Manetti made another change and started to introduce biodynamics: "When I was a child there were always cows on our land as well as vines, so in 2000 I bought four female cows so that they could produce manure to fertilize the soil." The cows are a special local Tuscan breed called Chianina and the idea is to use their manure as fertilizer and to create a more holistic environment.-Susan Hulme, Wine Independent
Sparkling, rich ruby. Interwoven nose, dense, shows pronounced notes of ripe cherries, some raspberries, then full of spices. Juicy and dense in the approach and progression, shows tightly woven tannins, sweet melting at the core, compact, is just the beginning of a long development, with a rich pressure and salty finish.-Falstaff
Linear, austere, the '08 is beginning to show some woodsy, underbrush elements, matched to a racy, nervous profile. The tannins are assertive for now and the length fine.—Non-blind Flaccianello vertical (July 2014). Best from 2016 through 2030.-Bruce Sanderson, The Wine Spectator
