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The drying, grippy feel on your gums and tongue, as with strong tea. It comes from the skins and seeds of black grapes and from oak, and softens with age.
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Body: powerful. Fuller than most red wines from ; 14% alcohol.
Tannin: firm. Aged in oak.
Sweetness: dry. Red wine from is almost always dry.
Acidity: medium. The warm climate of .
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Log inThis is the showpiece of Fattoria Le Pupille called Saffredi. The vineyard for this top wine grows 250 meters above sea level and is very small, 5 hectares. After manual harvesting, the Super Tuscan matures for 18 months in oak barrels, 75% of which are new barrels. This gives it lots of tannins and a wonderful structure, what a beast of a wine! The scent of ripe black fruit such as blackberries and berries supplemented with herbs, vanilla, oak wood and plums. The taste of this Fattoria Le Pupille Saffredi is very complex with many notes of black fruit, cinnamon, vanilla, cedar wood and much more! clearing and cherries on the nose. Lots of black fruit, jam and a hint of coffee and tobacco in the mouth. Long lasting with a spicy-smoky touch. The discovery continues with this wine! This is an amazing wine and the 2018 received no less than 96/100 Parker points and 97/100 points from Suckling. Antonio Galloni from Vinous (97+/100) writes in his review of the 2018: " It may very well be the most refined Saffredi I have ever tasted. " This is a magnum of 1.5 liters in OWC/1
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Rating
96
Release Price
$115
Drink Date
2021 - 2040
Reviewed by
Monica Larner
Issue Date
5th Nov 2020
Source
November 2020 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
The Fattoria le Pupille 2018 Saffredi borrows quite a bit from all of the grapes that make up the blend (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot). These balanced results open to a round bouquet of dark fruit, black cherry and plum. As the wine warms in the glass, it shows spice, cured tobacco and campfire embers. This is a full-bodied expression but not excessively so. It puts forth immediate elegance with carefully measured tannins and a fitting postscript of fresh acidity. This newest vintage of Saffredi should be hitting the market now, but if you buy it, you should plan on cellaring it.
This is a terrific set of wines from Fattoria le Pupille. The 2018 Saffredi offers an accurate and classic expression of the vintage. As it so happens, I have recently had the opportunity to re-taste several bottles of the 2016 Saffredi (which I awarded 98 points) at various masterclasses and events I have guided. Coming back to that wine, I now detect a hint of animal musk that seems to have developed in the bottle. I'll record that comment here, but I look forward to revisiting that vintage in a more formal manner at the next opportunity.
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96+
Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
From: New Releases from the Tuscan Coast (Jan 2021)
The 2018 Saffredi is a regal, elegant, supremely polished wine. It may very well be the most refined Saffredi I have ever tasted. Silky in its first impression, with striking aromatic presence and exceptional balance, the 2018 is a total knock-out. Sweet red cherry, plum, mocha, licorice and cinnamon accents develop over time, but it is the wine’s overall balance and poise that are so impressive today. The 2018 is an absolutely gorgeous Saffredi. It spent 20 months in French oak barrels, about 65% new. Don’t miss it.
- By Antonio Galloni on December 2020
Le Pupille has long been a standard bearer in the Maremma. This is another terrific set of new releases from proprietor Elisabetta Geppeti and her team led by consulting winemaker Luca D'Attoma. The Morellinos in particular are terrific, as is the 2018 Saffredi, a wine that very much reflects the style of the year in its elegant personality.
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World famous in Tuscany: the visionary Elisabetta Geppetti. With Fattoria Le Pupille she put Maremma on the map. She makes wines with the highest possible scores, never finished, never finished Geppetti goes for the very best. With her icon wine the Saffredi in the lead.
An eye for detail and extreme dedication from both Geppetti and famous winemaker Luca D'Attoma ensure a wine of this caliber. 30-year-old cabernet sauvignon and merlot vines, growing at an altitude of 250 meters, provide highly concentrated late-harvested grapes. The poor sandy soils make it so difficult for the sticks that there is only quality in the grapes. After the fermentation, it ripens for 18 months on small (75% new) barriques and a few months in the bottle.
Together, the nature and perfectionism of the Geppetti / D'Attoma duo ensure not only a top wine, but an icon with character. While there is no sangiovese in it, you can smell the typical Tuscan scents of dried red cherries, thyme, tobacco, graphite and flowers. All very precisely and delicately recognizable. On the palate intensity like a great Burgundy: a lot of taste, refinement, full and yet airy and elegant.
Le Pupille traditionally consists of two farms that, like outward looking pupils (eyes), could protect the village behind Pereta. From the beginning, passion for top wine was clear. The first harvest year only came on the market four years after the harvest and the 'godfather of the Super Tuscans' Giacomo Tachis (Sassicaia, Ornellaia etc.) was appointed as an advisory oenologist. Elisabetta Geppetti already knew as a child that wine was going to be the ambassador of the beautiful Maremma.
After the death of Tachis, Luca d'Attoma, known from the cult domain Tua Rita, was hired as an advisory winemaker and that is bearing fruit. Where Le Pupille has always been good, it has impressed in recent years with wines that are close to the ultimate score. Now affordable, in a few years you want that you had purchased several boxes for the current prices.
Deze 2018 Fattoria le Pupille Saffredi toont rijk en rijp zwart fruit zoals bramen en pruimen, ondersteund door vanille, cederhout, kaneel, koffie en een lange kruidig-rokerige finish met stevige tannines en veel structuur. Door die volle fruitigheid, stevige tannines en rokerige kruidigheid past hij uitstekend bij rundvlees, hartige pasta’s, pizza’s met geconcentreerde smaken en gegrild vlees van de barbecue, en maakt hij romantische diners extra spannend door zijn complexiteit en lengte. Kies bij rundvlees voor langzaam gegaard of dry-aged steak, bij pasta voor ragù of paddenstoelen met truffelolie en bij de barbecue voor gemarineerd en krachtig gekruid vlees; die bereidingswijzen accentueren de kruidige tonen en doen de tannines en het donkere fruit schitteren.
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