Poggio alle Querce 2007

Bottle of Poggio alle Querce
Il Guado Bolgheri 2007 

Poggio alle Querce
Il Guado Bolgheri 2007
Tuscany, Italy
Blend:  Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot
26.00 USD


Wine spectator gave this wine a 92 point rating.


Enticing plum and black cherry flavors are accented by oak spice and iron in this intense, muscular red.  Saturates the palate, eventually leaving the steeling structure to grace the finish.  The fruit echoes.  Best from 2014 through 2020.  (Vintage Cellar)




Interestingly this is another Bourdeaux Blend like the one before [post 27] but it was completely different...and better in my opinion.  The colors were similar.  A nice clear dark purple and almost opaque towards the center.  The nose exploded at you before you even got close to the glass.  I think I spent almost five minutes just smelling this wine before I realized I hadn't tasted it yet.  There wasn't the usual mob of students taking the wine class in the Vintage Cellar today (thank you Spring Break), which is why I was able to spend so much time just sniffing away to my hearts delight.  There was so much going on in the nose with this wine.  There was a definite cherry fruitiness that was coming to the forefront.  There were notes of dark chocolate mixed with a smoky oak component as well.  And strangely enough I got a kind of medicine hint as well as some rock.  If I had to describe the it more directly it was like mixing up some of the nasty cherry dimetapp and some band-aids with some gravel thrown in there for shits and giggles.  Oddly though, I kinda liked it.  In my opinion it smelled better than it tasted.  There was a component of plum coming to the forefront and spices too.  It was relatively light and dry but a nice sweetness from the plum to balance that out.  Even though it was light it had a way of sticking with you that would be more characteristic of a much heavier wine.  It did also have a bit of heat on the end.  I bet that if this does get to age to 2020 it will be one hell of a wine, and for 19.95 on sale at the Vintage Cellar I may just go get a bottle to do that with!