blackcat20
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Re: Mitolo Cantiniere
Hmmm, hopefully. I guess the truth will be in the tasting...
There are a lot of inconsistencies.
If you look at the GAM and Savitar, both 2012 currently, bottled in October 2014 and Angela's Block 2013 bottled in September 2014 (But probably September 2015 as "Aged in fine grained oak, predominantly hogsheads (10% new: 90% old French Oak) for 18 months.").
But then the Cantiniere specs say "Aged in fine grained oak, predominantly hogsheads (10% new: 90% old French Oak) for 14 months."
So in August/September or even earlier they would be doing final barrel checks on 2013 vintage reds before blending to tank for bottling.
Let's hope it was just VM buyer persuasion to do an exclusive wine for them and not the least of the barrels from those destined for Angela and GAM.
Hopefully VM are smart enough not to stuff up on a major scale by over-hyping a lesser wine in collusion with Mitolo.
But stranger things have happened, I once saw a wine blended from leftover components of two medal winning wines that was claimed to have won all the numerous medals of the component wines when in reality it was a completely different wine and had won none.
Hmmm, hopefully. I guess the truth will be in the tasting...