Tonight I am enjoying the 2018 Torrione Petrolo Val D'Arno Di Sopra Petraviva Rosso. Super Tuscan from Bucine, Italy. A blend of 80% Sangiovese, 15% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
On the nose we have blackberry, cherry, black olive, anise, dried roses, cedar, tobacco, leather and earth.
On rhe palate is red cherry, raspberry, blackberry, red currant, cassis, wild herbs, spice, pencil shavings and earth.
This wine is full bodied supple and very delicious medium + to high acidity and medium + to high firm sandy mouthcoating tannins that leave you with a long red and black fruit herbaceous finish. A new week again is upon us with many new and exciting challenges. Lets meet these challenges head on and make it a fruitful experience. Please stay safe and healthy and enjoy the week. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 4 years ago
Ali loved it. Nice, smooth, easy (but not boring) drink. Apricots. — 7 years ago
Сбалансированное, фруктов-ягодное вино. — 8 years ago
Dinner with ali and Evan at Almond in NYC — 9 years ago
2024/7/20-21. Aromatically this starts out pretty brown - lots of toasted spice and earth. With air it does show flashes of the deep, smoky cherry one might expect, and it’s still very enjoyable, but I can’t help wonder if this bottle (which I bought on sale) might have been a little worse for wear. I usually love Graci’s wines, and something felt a bit off… — 2 years ago
Italy wine club
100% Sangiovese.
Well balanced. Dark fruit, a bit herbaceous. A little bit of a bite but overall medium round.
Had w steak, would drink around. More Ali than Trevor style wine but he appreciated — 2 years ago
Stephanie had at crush pad - lovely! Intesersting — 4 years ago
Ali and Eric have come up with another beauty. — 5 years ago
A lot more advanced than expected for a 2010 but very pleasant. — 8 years ago
Ali likes it, birthday wine at oleana. V dry with anise and licorice and dark fruits — 9 years ago
We quite liked this, 2021, bottling in 2024. Label does not say “Sangiovese” or “blend” just Vino Rosso but otherwise the same label, the front has an Angel with a torch. Unique scent noticeable, not unpleasant. — 2 years ago
pure and sensitive expression of SV.
Stokiness lift the juicy aromas.
High transparency. — 4 years ago
Yassssss! Just as good. Lacks the grip of some competitors but it maintains its balance. The fruit is so pure, lifted, and fresh. — 5 years ago
First candle lit dinner with Remi. JB and Ali got her down while Ali artfully cut and ate her steak with one hand. Also, the grill caught on fire, but JB saved the steaks at the perfect level of char. The spinach was delicious, and the dirt that Ali left on it from the farmers market will help tremendously with digestion. — 7 years ago
1/12/2018: SS Ali — 8 years ago
Lost a quarter bottle when I opened it- but what was left behind was super tasty. If only I could wring my carpet out. — 9 years ago
Andrew Cullimore
This is a bit more dense and complex on the nose , denser fruits perhaps with some cedar , herbal hints along side the slightly bitter cherries . This fills out more on the palate , is longer and more intense , touch of herbal bitter cherries and pine sap. Really long and fresh . Needs time but has all the qualities to age well over the next 10 years . At Vinous Icons NY , Pier 60 , Feb 2025. — 10 months ago