Event

Thirsty Thursday!! Banfi AKSa, Bolghieri Rosso

Thursday, May 06, 2021

Time: 04:00pm - 08:00pm

Type: Wine Tasting

Location: The Wine Cabinet

Event Free

IN STORE TASTING SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
 OPEN BOTTLE 
STILL AVAILABLE FOR CURBSIDE PICKUP OR DELIVERY!!



(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)


Banfi Family Winery


2017
90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc

Bolgheri, Tuscany, Italy
A classic Cabernet blend from the old world…. Enchanting!

The region of Bolgheri became internationally known following an event in 1974 arranged by Decanter Magazine where a 6-year-old Sassicaia won over an assortment of big name Bordeaux wines.


90 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"In developing their new Bolgheri project, the team at Banfi decided to focus on Cabernet Sauvignon with Cabernet Franc, blended here 90% to 10%, respectively. Their 2017 Bolgheri Rosso Aska shows richness and generous fruit for sure, but the wine is more streamlined and subdued next to many of the much riper wines made by its peers in this hot and dry vintage. This wine has captured the concentration and spicy nature of the vintage, but it does so without feeling heavy or jammy. There's good balance in the mouth as well, with well managed tannin."

90 Points The Wine Enthusiast
"This blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc opens with aromas of dark-skinned berry, leather and a whiff of mocha. The juicy, balanced palate delivers blackberry jam, star anise and tobacco alongside fine-grained tannins." 



 Elsewhere at $42.00
Our Regular price $39.99

Special Sale Price  

$27.00 by the bottle

 $144.00 for six $24.00 )


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Our Thoughts on this wine.....

Ripe black cherry, plum, herb, leather, earth flavors are supported by a dense structure in this solidly built red. The aromas are fruity and sweet, with hints of jam, pepper and tobacco.
On the palate it is powerful, concentrated, with dense and compact tannins.
Suitable for a medium-long term aging but it presents itself good now.  
Best from 2021 through 2035



Bolgheri, the unexpected wine of Tuscany
Excerpt from The Grand Wine Tour Association
Once known only as Super Tuscans, the wines of Bolgheri are shedding their old label and becoming recognized more for their terroir than their once-revolutionary origins.


Changes were fermenting in the wine world from the 1960s-1980s, a scattering of movements with heavy adjectives attached to them, like the Judgment of Paris in 1976 or the Barolo Wars in the 1980s. Underlying them all was a shift in culture that signaled a refreshing take on the age-old traditions of wine, including Bolgheri wine. One such change was the Super Tuscan revolution in Bolgheri in the late 1960s to 1970s. It’s impossible to talk about Bolgheri’s rise to fame and cult status without talking about Sassicaia, the wine that started it all. According to the Bolgheri DOC Consorzio, aristocrat Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted the first Cabernet vineyard in 1944 in Castiglioncello di Bolgheri. He and his family drank the wine as their personal vino da tavola for years, and it only went on the market as the first Bolgheri wine, sold by Tenuta San Guido as Sassicaia, in 1968. A critic dubbed it a Super Tuscan—yet another punchy name—and this nickname stuck. But now, Bolgheri as a region and wine is beginning to emerge on its own to replace its old, unofficial label.

A new wine zone in an ancient country
The Bolgheri region is a wine zone in the Maremma that runs parallel to the Tuscan coast in the province of Livorno, named after the town of Bolgheri. It is different than other Italian wine regions, because it is surprisingly new for such an old country. Maremma was swampland in living memory, and only completely drained in the 1930s. What a surprise it was that the fertile, alluvial soils would be so conducive to grapevine cultivation—and not just any, but French varieties. In addition, unlike many other prestigious vineyard territories throughout Italy (like hilly Barolo and Barbaresco in Piedmont, the terraced rises of Valdobbiadene in Veneto, or the zones of Chianti Classico and Montalcino in Tuscany), Bolgheri is comparatively flat and low in altitude………