Tuesday Blind Tastings
Turners Crossing Shiraz 2013
Bendigo, Australia
Price: $25
Rating: 95
Source: Cellar
Description: Medium purple colour. Plums, black pepper, vanilla, coconut and aniseed on the nose. The palate was spicy, savoury and fine with beautiful cool climate fruit and an acidic, dry finish.
Tasting date: 02 February 2021
tasted Tignanello, which was at La Famiglia restaurant in London. This wine is a rich, smooth, mouth-coating elixir of black cherry, vanilla, chocolate, and earth. Delicious with a plate of angel hair pasta, Parmesan Reggiano, and freshly grated white truffle. Yum. 518.Chianti is a region in Tuscany that makes a wine by the same name. Its always made from Sangiovese grapes and tastes of cherries.A wine labeled Chianti Classico means the wine comes from grapes grown in the original center of the Chianti region, recognized for having the best soils for growing Sangiovese. 519.In 1716, the Grand Duke of Tuscany issued an edict officially recognizing the boundaries of the Chianti district.This proclamation was the worlds first legal document defining a wine production zone. Chianti Classico is therefore the worlds first ever legally demarcated wine region and the original boundaries remain today. 520.Chianti Classicos wines are identifiable by an image of a Black Rooster on the bottle.The Black Rooster guarantees the wines authenticity and verifies that it has passed strict quality controls. 140 1000 BEST WINE SECRETS 521.Chianti Classicos black rooster symbol dates back to the Middle Ages. Legend has it that the behavior of a black rooster decided the zones political fate. The Chianti territory fell