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We had our first Vin Santo last night - picked it up as a lark (I was looking for Hungarian and the store was out) - WOW - really good! Amazingly good! The region was correct, but I haven't heard of the winemaker (Castello di Brolio) nor did I find reference to it. I suspect we good a lesser producer - and if so - I look forward to getting other ones!

Almonds, Honey, Raiseny, Caramel, vanilla tastes, and it lasted for more than a full minute at fairly high intensity! At 17.5% alcohol, I was thinking the alcohol taste was going to overpower it, and it definitely did not.

WOW!! For a guy slowly weaning himself off of Napa wines, this is quite an pleasant surprise!

Anyone else have experience with this type of wine? Any suggestions for next tries?

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Bromo
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The producer is Barone di Ricasoli, not one of the lesser ones... :-) Anders

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Anders Tørneskog
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It's one of the most important Chianti Classico producer. See

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t.schnack
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This is a good one:

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t.schnack

Wow -- talk about dumb luck, then! It is an amazing wine - from what I have been finding out on the Web, is that there is tremendous variation year to year and producer to producer!

Reply to
Bromo

The best I've ever tasted is from Avignonesi. It's fabulous!

But the number of Vin Santo producers is enormous - many wineyards have a (often small) production of this sometimes wonderfull wine - somtimes boaring indifferent fluidium. But in general You'll find that good producers og 'usual' wines also produces good VS.

regards

Jan

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Jan Bøgh
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Katherine Wolfe

Thanks for clearing that up for me. My memory was that the waitress said it was a Vin Santo, but between her tourist English and my kitchen Italian she could have said it was *like* a Vin Santo, and I misunderstood.

We must have lucked out, then, because the wine we had was a revelation. I have always had a sweet tooth for dessert wines, but this wine was different from the uni-dimensional sweetness of what I had tasted before. As the wine sat in my mouth, it kept changing, deepening. Then, swallowing, it changed again. Breathe out - oh, that's wonderful! After a minute I realized that I had been sitting, one hand gripping the table, white-knuckled, eyes closed, while the waitress was asking me, a bit worriedly, "Okay? Okay?" I opened my eyes, looked up at her, smiled, and said, "Si, fantastico!" - and we both laughed.

Seems like I said "fantastico" a lot in Italy...

Katherine

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Katherine Wolfe

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