Felsina "Rancia" Chianti Classico Riserva 2006

Purple/red.

Vinturi - tar/creosote, black pepper, earth - difficult, loaded, nose. Needs coaxing. Savory, spicy meat drippings and black cherry sauce with time. Then white pepper.

Intense, linear, loaded middle-weight. Reminds me of great Bordeaux in that sense, just no (obvious) impression of new oak. Hard to differentiate flavors from structural elements here, inter-twined, synergistic. Nowhere near its prime. Give this at least 5-6 years.

Day 3 - Nothing difficult about the nose now. Really suave and savory, then serious structure kicks in, shutting down the mouth.

$40. Deal?