Went to the Antinori wine bar in Florence mid-90s, it was brilliant. They had aged (10-15 yr old) bottles of Tig by the glass! Older bottles available to buy, drink in the bar with food menu. Heaven.

@megliodibere

5 ай бұрын

Fantastic enoteca pinchiorri❤

@Tennisisreallyfun

14 күн бұрын

Wait, such a paradise exists???

Thanks Konstantin for showcasing my country so greatly !

Loved the super Tuscan tasting.. Had the Tignallo 2018 recently and could not believe how well it was drinking... Brilliant stuff 👌🍷

Sunday is fast becoming my favourite day because of new Konstantin videos! I have loved Bolgheri wines since visiting last year but I’m a little over ‘international grape’ wines. There are so many Italian varieties to try and you won’t find them anywhere else!

So excited to see this video! I’ve been waiting for this one

The longer i follow you the more I enjoy your content. I love your passion.These and Nebbiolo wines are without a doubt my favorite styles of red. It brings me back to the time I spent in Italy. If only I could figure out how to stay there, just for the wine haha.

Hi I'm Konstantin Baum, Master of wine and today......why is it that that sentence soothes me so much

I appreciate the details on decanting and maintaining the decanter!

Enjoyed the video! Thanks for adding in a value wine with this tasting! At 23.99 I will definitely try the Lucente.

I really like both Tignanello (especially) and Sassicaia, but I have to say there is nothing like a good Brunello 😀

@MrDjjayf

Жыл бұрын

Sure ! 10' 15' or 16'

@seminky5341

Жыл бұрын

Ahah! I always wonder abt this because SuperT maybe much more expensive but it is not DOCG.

@DaMueff

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. Brunello is brilliant. Fortunately I have some bottles from 2015 and 2016 in my cellar, and I''m really looking forward to drinking them during the next years/decades. My favourite right now: Altesino.

@seminky5341

Жыл бұрын

@@DaMueff omg, altesino is the best! Not many people know the brand. I came across a basic brunello from altesino 2007 and they sell less then 100USD. I think it was a mistake

@Augustus_Imperator

Жыл бұрын

@@DaMueff BruneIIo ages very weII, that's both a strength and a weakeness, young it doesn't give its best but with 4-5+ years of aging reaIIy shines; I bought 6 bottIes of Banfi 2017 a coupIe of years ago, can't wait to open one

Excellent tasting Konstantin! Great wines and nice to know how the older vintages are evolving. Cheers 🥂

I have enjoyed your videos and especially this one. I recognized your elegant carafe as one of my old research lab friends, the one liter narrow necked Erlenmeyer flask.

Great video! Super Tuscans from Bolgheri are some of my favorite wines. Cheers 🍷

sassicaia, my dream... amazing videos konstantin, keep up the great work!

Love these wines! I visited Bolgheri in 2004 so might have said hello to the grapes in that bottle of Sassicaia.

Great Review, utmost appreciated

I have all 3 of them in cellar at work, different vintages though. including Luce 2017 and Antinori Guado al Tasso 2013. Super proud of this shelf

Tignanello is actually one of my absolute favorite of all times. I'm very passionate about this specific wine. It checks all the boxes for me, so inexpensively... I had the chance to taste every vintages at least twice since the 1989. Never ever been disappointed, except for the 2014. The only problem with this wine is that since the 2015 vintage it has become extremely hard to put my hands on a couple of cases, I have to pay a big premium to get them now, sometimes through a broker, in fact every year when they arrive it's even worse than iPhones in Apple stores circa 2009. Obviously my Tiganello collection alone went from 11K to 24K in just 3 years only because people have been waking up seriously about Tignanello it seems. Ten years ago (or so) I was able to buy a Tignanello just before putting a Wagyu Tajima on the grill, now I have a 20 minute window at midnight every year to buy as much as I can when it gets released to the market where I live (Canada). This wine is obviously absolutely beautiful, but I don't understand the madness around it since 2015... it quadrupled in price since the 2015 vintage, it's not an accessible gem anymore sadly. It's still the best wine to have with a beautiful bistecca alla Fiorentina at sunset though. Every year we are gifting ourselves with a tasting of Flacianello, Tignanello & Sassicaia with great steaks before preparing our cases to lay dow for aging, and it's always one of the best evening of the year. It's gonna be the 15th year that we do this and we have been so excited about this evening every year that we are adding a 5 consecutive years vertical tasting of Yquem after the meal this year. We are going to be fucking drunk and emotional on this evening let me tell you!

@waynesorensen7071

Ай бұрын

Holy Cow Dude what province are u in?

@_symmetry_

Ай бұрын

@@waynesorensen7071 The worst of them all mate, QC, where too much people turned lobotomized rocks and are voting for the ahole Crime Minister we are metastasized with since 2015... I wish I lived in Alberta where my values are much more aligned with Danielle Smith, but, as a French guy living in one of the most diseased and woke place on earth, at least I have the biggest wine importer on the planet to help me forget about how disgusting our country has become thanks to all those diseased leftists parasites.

good reviews, thanks! my favourite “Super Tuscan” is the Flaccianello from Fontodi, which is actually … 100% Sangiovese! 😀

First. And a long waited video. Really ended up being a big fan of super tuscans :)

Great selection!

I didn‘t know Luce, and will certainly look for it. It had quite a few Tignanellos, always a delight, and I had quite a few Ornellaias from the 80ties at that time. I‘ve never tasted Solaia, however, which also belongs to the club.

I bought a 2009 Castello dei Rampolla Sammarco on a whim and kept it for a few years before opening it in 2018. Great bottle of wine! 🍷After that I have started adding a few more bottles of super Tuscans to the cellar.

Tried Tignanello once, would love to be able to afford them more! You are a lucky man that makes me love my wine journey even more! I'll definitely stay thirsty!

more supers!! great vid , thank you

Love your video, my friend! Hope to see you tasting some good Brazilian wines! Cheers!

Dude! That Tignanello was one of the first wines that ever made me go "huh there's more to this". Excellent wine and fun episode!

Great video. Learned some new stuff about super Tuscan wines. These wines used to offer great value, although that has changed dramatically over time 😢 which is inevitable I suppose but nonetheless regrettable for those of us on a budget. I used to see Tig on the menu down the street at the local pizza restaurant- priced within reach.

We had a magnum of Tignanello 2015 with some friends a couple of weeks ago. It tasted delicous with some Hereford côte à l'os, the more so that the bottle was a gift and we didn't have to pay for it!

Here sipping a Cornas 2008 domaine vincent paris grannit 60. Lovely. I think I preferred the older intro btw. Congrats on the YT success and keep goin !

very nice, sir. I recently acquired a bottle of tignanello. It has yet to arrive ^_^ so I am excited ....to put it in my winecooler for a couple of years haha

And, Konstantin : oh yes , it was a funny and very okay line-up! Solche Proben machen immer wieder Spass.

People like to poo poo on Tignanello but I still enjoy it, the wine ages nicely, and it’s impressive how good the wine is with they scale they make it at… I’ve been fooled several times in blind tastings with Sassicaia.

Yeah, I like supertuscans. Less known goods can rival the bigger ones in my opinion. I also love the cuvées that contain Syrah and/or Petit Verdot.

Have drunk 2 cases of the Lucente 2016! one of my go to Italian wines especially at the price. Also tried the 2016 Tignanello in half bottle...sublime!

In 2011, I tasted my first Tignanello-a 2004-and I was a bit underwhelmed, so I have not gravitated towards it. However, just this spring I was presented with a 2019 Tignanello at a tasting, and it was absolutely amazing! I splurged and bought 2 bottles. A high 90’s score for me definitely. Just this weekend I had the 2019 Antinori Chianti Classico Reserva Tenuta Tignanello, and it was also really nice-not quite like THE Tignanello, but a great value for less than 1/3 the price, and a good pick for drinking now while the big brother sleeps for a few years.

I’d never refuse the offer of a glass of Tig but having done a vertical comparatively recently of ~8, the difference between the years was very marked. Most were classically gorgeous but a couple fell a bit flat; it could have been bottle variation but there were multiple bottles of each vintage from different cellars and they were consistent. Sassicaia I have also found to be somewhat variable.

These 3 are great wines and I am very impressed by the Lucente as it is a great wine for a great price! Drinking Sassicaia though is as close to euphoria as you can get! I am sure God drinks Sassicaia! Super Tuscans are my absolute favorite!

Fermented fruit juice. Amazing how complex and interesting this can be.

My wife and I had our honeymoon in Venice in 1993, and we had Sassicaia and Solaia at restaurants. Unfortunately I did not write down the vintages, but both were great. 😊 I am glad we had them then, because we could not afford them today. 🙁

Super Tuscans have become one of my favorite wines

Had a bottle of Sassicaia for my 50th birthday: it's good, but perhaps I'm not enough of an expert to fully appreciate it. I think I'll stick with Brunello, Barolo and above all Amarone 🙂

I was offered last week to buy Sassicaia, a tad too expensive to buy as I had never heard of it. Now I will consider your rating 😀

Aged Luce and Solaia are my favorites! Blending Sangiovese is something I want to taste when it comes to Super Tuscans ;)

I have tried reddigaffi, siepi and caia rossa, all great super tuscans!

I've day-dreamed about drinking a well known Super Tuscan like these, since IGTs are consistently my favorite wines, next to a good Brunello. Maybe do some Brunello comparisons some day? Thanks for sharing!

loved the 2004 Sas still have a couple of 2009 highly recommended!!

wow, 2004 and still young (the Sassicaia) 👀. There is a 2003 in a restaurant nearby. I hope it's still there when i'm able to order. thanks for the content

There's 100s of blends and styles similar and different. Sangiovese based is common, blend wise these are fun. The IGT Veronese blends are fun too especially with rippasso/appassiamento techniques applied. These vary with each winery, palazzo Della Torre is nice but allegrini has high end types too.

I really enjoyed the video! I hope you taste another super tuscan wine, Testamatta rosso from Bibi Graetz. In some South Korean wine communities, there has been some controversy about the Testamatta’s quality recently. Some people say it’s overrated by some critics. I haven’t tasted the wine yet and I’m curious about the taste and the quality. I wish you could give some objective opinion about the wine! Thanks! 😊

Tignanello was a profound experience for me

Love super tuscans! I tend to drink them young, most of them (Sassicaia, Tignanello are exceptions) don't tend to age well.

San Guido and Ornellaia are two of the best producers world wide imo

Love your content! I've had Tig several times, Barolo as well, along with countless bottles of various producers of sangiovese all while touring Italy. I've enjoyed them all (to varying degrees) but by far my HEART BELONGS TO Brunello di Montalchino! Now, Sassicaia might be better but that $270.00. (U.S.) price tag per bottle keeps me from finding out -:) ....if only I could win a lottery

love supertuscan

need a few of these...

Hey I'd decant all of these but thats my opinion fer all high end wines. Lucky gentleman, I only tried this becuase nice clientele left me half a glass one night. The absolute best way to learn about wine, the clientele!!

An undersung movement of the wine world! I enjoy cheaper versions of these awesome classics

One of the best wines I've tasted so far was the 2009 Solaia. Absolutely delicious! However, when it comes to the price point, there are by far more interesting alternatives out there. Especially Sassicaia, Solaia, Ornellaia are ridicously expensive, not to mention Masseto. So these bottles will be always once-in-a-lifetime experiences for me.

@atleti910

5 ай бұрын

Can you name some of these alternatives?

@DaMueff

5 ай бұрын

In Italy: Il Bruciato or Loto, for example. Or try Chilean or Argentinan Bordeaux-Blends. They can offer great value for money.

@atleti910

5 ай бұрын

@@DaMueff thanks, I am going to check them. Bruciato seems like a very good recommendation.

Very nice video. Anyway you could do a amarone tasting from Italy ?

Hi Konstantin, love your videos and the opportunity to get a glimpse of how true professionals taste and experience wine. I was wondering what you do with all the opened bottles on this channels; do you share with others behind the camera, do you have a way of taking care of the wine so you can enjoy it later, or do you have to pour it out/drink it at once, like the rest of us? Keep the videos coming, cheers!

@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine

Жыл бұрын

I share them with staff, friends and family. If I one to keep them I put a little Argon gas on top and put the cork back in

Fantastic videos and I’m a big fan! Just utterly curious - if a superstar like Sassicaia is 95 points, what would a 100-pointer wine be in your opinion?

You had in one evening three wines that I might taste in one life 😅. Thanks for sharing anyway, great contents as usual

@Ventitrer

5 ай бұрын

​@@stvo2009 You were wordy aber kind of right. Next Raise I'm going to buy a Sassicaia. Best ;)

Appreciate the hyper short intro, more time for wine knowledge

Now we need Super Edition Super Supertuscans

Did you make this video because I commented on your instagram about wanting to see a Super Tuscan tasting? 😂 or did you already plan it? Either way, fantastic video! Super Tuscans are among my favourites!

How did you find those wines with such age on them? Thanks again for the great video.

On Sideways, 88 Sasacaia was the bottle that did UT for Mya

I have to say I’m more of a Barolo / Barbersco type but my favorite super tuscan is Solaia for sure.

Hi I'm not sure if the info is accurate but I saw Merlot 75 %, Sangiovese 25 % for the Luce Lucente. Never tried it so I'm going to grab a couple bottles this week. Cheers and thank you for those videos you put out.

I saw a comment about the winery Poggio al Tesoro praising their wines and I have to say, my favourite Bolgheri wines for sure! The winery is right in the middle of the Tenuta san Guido, Ornellaia and Guado al Tasso triangle and they also have great heritage (Allegrini in Veneto). Have you tried them Konstantin?

well said

The only Super Tuscan I have had was the Mazzei Siepi 2021. I guess it was too young to drink? Im a total beginner and bought it out of curiosity and to serve it with 5 other wines as a fun style blind tasting at my birthday. The other "big" wine at the tasting was Torbreck, The Factor 2019 - an absolutely stunning super dense and inky pure Shiraz. My favourite so far.

What glass use for this tasting? Thank you for this tasting.

Hej Constantion, is there a reason that you have changed glassware? Best regards keep it up

Hello hello, it is me, the Czech wine tasting reminder guy.

Hmmm - I have a 2010 tignanello in the cellar and will try it with a high end Oz Shiraz tomorrow - I did not know what a supertuscan was…thanks Konstantin🙃

@sinclairwhitbourne2090

Жыл бұрын

For god's sake please, please decant and allow at least an hour before you plan to drink it. Ideally allow 3-4 hours. Also consider your glass choice. I like the Riedel Vinum Bordeaux with all Tuscan wines but play about to see what works for you. Hope you enjoy a fine vintage of a wonderful wine.

@shaunsandow2073

Жыл бұрын

@@sinclairwhitbourne2090 It’s going this evening w a 93’ Rockford Basket press Shiraz…and I suspect they’ll both match w rare eye fillet. As to the glass, riedel but no idea on type; although a jam jar would probably suffice 😀.

Congratulations for your explanation, I advise you as a winemaker and as a Tuscan to try some wines from the Maremma area (Grosseto) "Montecucco sangiovese Assolati" (2015) and Chianti Riserva "Villa Paternino" (2016) Pistoia (upper Tuscany)

Great timing! We just finished a one week Tuscany Wine trip and had some great wines. What do you think of the Prima Pietra super tuscan?

@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine

Жыл бұрын

I have never tasted it.

Kanstantin! Planning our first trip to Tuscany (Florence, Chianti, Montelcino) for our honeymoon in October. Any top recommendations for wineries to visit while we're there? Thanks for any expert intel!

Would love to hear the price of those bottles in the video. Really interesting video nevertheless! Thanks for making this great wine content!

You have a very squeeky chair! But another super interesting video😍

I spent some time in Montalcino and enjoyed the many fine wines. I however have not yet tried any of these three. I think I will start with the 2019 Tignanello. Q: what do you do with all the wines you end up tasting?

Although I hear they are very pricey for its quality and quite hard to come by. But I would love it if you could do a video on Ningxia in China? I've heard many great (and not so great) things about the up and coming Chinese wine industry. I'm truly fascinated how countries like China, England and Mexico will shape the future of the wine world.

Super Tuscans are great, it just seems that there's only two categories. The iconic OG ones that cost a lot and on the other hand mass produces plonk with high stores from Luca Moroni. This has been my experience here in Taiwan/Asia. I am guessing that in Europe and other places there's more diversity. Great video, let's see it I can get lucky and getting myself hands on some mid-range Super Tuscan style Bolgheri reds.

@Ildskalli

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's definitely more to them. I tasted a few IGT blends in Tuscany that were delicious and didn't break the bank. In the end I enjoyed them more than the slew of Chianti classicos that I had, which end up quite similar to one another because of how restrictive the DOCG rules are.

2001!!!!! that's my birth year. super jealous.

Some more value super tuscans that i enjoy are monteti's monteti and their caburnio. Also, brancaia ilatraia is another good one....used to buy their il blu but too expensive now (ilatraia is close)

I love super Tuscans. They are a little rare here in Ohio, but I’ve never had a bad one. I’d love to see you taste a selection, if this is even possible, of wines made from grapes the Romans used. I’ve read some contemporary writers discussing wine and even vintages. Does anyone today age in amphora?

@jetsblue96

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the grapes used during the Roman period no longer exist. They have since morphed into other varieties that we now see today. Regarding amphora, there are quite a few producers currently using amphora aging vessels all over the world. The most famous use is probably the Kvevri of Georgia, but producers from Josko Gravner in Friuli to Michel Magnien in Burgundy to even Sonoma-Cutrer in California all utilize amphorae.

@fabriziomonaco7700

Жыл бұрын

There’s mamertino that you should try! it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamertino. Unfortunately the Wikipedia page is not available in english. That is supposed to be Julius Caesar favorite wine (mentioned in de bello Gallico). Of course it is impossible to say if it is Made exactly as it was, but I really enjoyed a botte a few months ago.

Love the Super Tuscans. Alas, as they are discovered by the world the prices are skyrocketing :(

Just had a Maderia and port wine dinner in Macau last night. 1815, 1850, 1890, 1964, 1972. Epic! You need to try more old wines. Once in a lifetime experience

@shaunsandow2073

Жыл бұрын

I hope it was with some nice cheese….bejeebuz - 1815…strained through an afghans undies?

@Rancourt762

Жыл бұрын

I have a special place in my heart for old ports and Madeira, that sounds like a wonderful tasting. I have never had anything from the 1800s

We have a bottle of 2017 Tignanello. Wondering how long to lay it down for and what will be the best drinking window?

I’ve had a Tignanello last month when I was in Italy. A very pleasure full whine. Liked it much, but not sure it was worth the 130€.

Have you done a video on Veneto yet? I'm curious about what you may think of Producers like Quintarelli, Del Forno and Zyme.

Buddy! I get all of this but what about the price point compared to them? The last one is of course more intense

How long do you think it would be moderate for the decanting?

I should like the Sangiovese by itself or with a little of its traditional blending grapes...but, when a little Cabernet or Merlot or Syrah is added, I like the wine better. I feel unhappy with myself but your palate knows what it likes.

My preference is Brunello. However when it comes to Super-tuscans there is nothing like the Sassicaia.🍷

After the videos what do you do with all the opened bottles? Just drink them all with your staff?

I very much like Giodo Brunello, 2015 and 2016 stand out and are very high quality. Ever got the chance to taste Giodo Konstantin?

Over the last five years I've watched new releases of Sassicaia, Ornellaia and Flaccianello fly well over my budget. I suspect it won't be very long before Tignanello goes the same way. Oh well...