If you would like to waive this protection by shipping Ground, we will request a waiver be signed. SHIPPING: During warm summer weather, we recommend to only ship within the United States with Same Day or Next Day Air service to protect the wines from environmental damage. Please choose this option at checkout and we will coordinate shipping for a later date. We ship within the United States to:ĪK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY.įREE SHIPPING INSURANCE: We provide FREE carrier insurance for lost or damaged shipments (per carrier terms and conditions.)įREE WINE STORAGE: We provide FREE 6 Months wine cellar storage from date of purchase. UPS Holiday Shipping Schedule, click HERE.įor INTERNATIONAL shipping, click HERE. These traits are particularly well suited to the versatile grape variety at the heart of this Tuscan all-rounder. You get the best of both worlds with this stunning creation: elegance and power. In the coastal Bolgheri appellation, it is also remembered for the power of its wines. You'll remember that the 2006 vintage is celebrated for the elegance of its wines. The personality is sunny, expansive, articulate and sophisticated. The wine delivers an extra sense of tightness or firmness at the back that serves to stitch together its fleshy richness and general sumptuousness. Among the prized vintages of Masseto, including 2001, 20, this edition is my favorite. It is steady on its proverbial feet, but it also glides over the palate with a profound sense of elegance, harmony and rhythm. This Merlot-based masterpiece hits all your senses with the grace of a ballerina and the power of a heavyweight. This is a wine of sheer power, bliss, opulence, infinity and sublime seduction. The wine that most delighted me at this historic tasting of Tuscany's most iconic wines was the 2006 Masseto. On the palate it is powerful, rich, and opulent, with tightly woven, sweet, polished tannins balanced perfectly by acidity, which leads into a long finish marked by elegance and freshness. The intense nose with ripe fruit and jam reflects the summer sun. The 2006 Masseto reflects the particular conditions of the vintage: ripeness, concentration and balance. Opulent, ripe fruit and Mediterranean herbs melt together in a glorious bouquet. The proverbial power is still there but the wine has developed a seamless integration of all its elements. TASTING NOTES: A bold and powerful wine in its early years, Masseto 2006 has now shed a lot of its initial flamboyance and evolves towards an unexpectedly classic and elegant profile. During the harvest, the pickers worked their way through the vineyard four times, beginning on 6th September with the ‘Masseto Alto’ section of the vineyard, and 23rd September with the ‘Masseto Centrale’ section. At the beginning of the harvest the grapes were perfect: concentrated and uniformly ripe. Excellent climatic conditions during ripening, coupled with the reduced size of the grapes, provided an exceptional concentration, with sugars, tannins and acidity all higher than usual. The summer was also not too hot, and as a result the vines produced a good volume of grapes with good aromatic potential. From April to August there was almost no rain, and this led the vines to produce slightly smaller than normal bunches. Regulation and law began to change, and wine drinkers across the globe woke up to the outstanding wines coming out of Italy, which are continuing to improve and impress to this day.2006 Masseto began with a rainy winter, followed by hot spring days that resulted in flowering after the first week of June. These 'Super Tuscans', as they came to be known, quickly inspired the rest of Italy to improve their produce, and now, Italian wine producers in the twenty-first century are widely recognised to be amongst the best in the world. They believed that they had the expertise and the generations of experience necessary with which to make truly excellent, world class wines, and set about doing just that. This led to several wineries in the beautiful and highly fertile region of Tuscany making the bold move to work outside of the law, which they saw as responsible for the drop in quality in Tuscan wines. This was brought about partly due to lack of regulation in certain regions, and too much regulation in others. For several decades in the mid to late twentieth century, Italy's reputation for quality wines took a fairly serious blow.
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