2004 Castellare Chianti Classico: file this under “whoops”
Monday, April 7th, 2008
We’ve had the 2004 Castellare Chianti Classico on our minds ever since tasting it at the Winebow trade tasting of their Italian portfolio. We were impressed by the wine, as was our tasting partner for the day. You can read our write-up here, and our tasting partner’s here.
Finally, last week, we got it in stock and went to enter it into inventory this weekend. As a matter of course, we decided to look up the scores in the wine trades. Yes, we actually buy wine because we like it, before we’ve even checked out the Speculator and such. And perhaps that’s a good thing, because who knows if we would have brought it in had we seen the 78 points it received from the Wine Spectator’s James Suckling, with the following notes: Read more…
