{"id":4801,"date":"2012-05-02T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2012-05-02T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:41:34","slug":"serious-sangiovese-il-molino-di-grace-gratius-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/italy\/serious-sangiovese-il-molino-di-grace-gratius-2006","title":{"rendered":"Serious Sangiovese, Il Molino di Grace Gratius 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now this isn’t a perfect wine. But it’s a very good one, it’s interesting, it’s edgy, and it tastes like the essence of Tuscan Sangiovese.<\/p>\n

Sangiovese is not an easy grape. It doesn’t make accessible, fruity wines. It can be difficult, and it has a tendency to err in the direction of drying tannins and away from sweet fruit.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps for these reasons that it took me a while to make my mind up about this wine, a 100% Sangiovese from a single vineyard on the Panzano property of Frank Grace<\/a>. After two nights, I have decided that it’s quite serious, but it has edges, and needs food.<\/p>\n

Il Molino di Grace Gratius 2006 IGT Toscana, Italy<\/strong>
\n13.5% alcohol. A really savoury, structured Tuscan Sangiovese. It has a sweetly aromatic, balsamic, tarry edge to the firm black cherry and berry fruits. The palate is dense, grainy and tannic with firm structure and a drying finish, as well as some sleek plum and cherry fruit. In terms of style, this is austere in the same way that a top Barolo would be. Distinctly Italian, distinctly Tuscany and quite individual. 91\/100<\/p>\n

Find this wine with\u00a0wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now this isn’t a perfect wine. But it’s a very good one, it’s interesting, it’s edgy, and it tastes like the essence of Tuscan Sangiovese. Sangiovese is not an easy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[370,102,201],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-italy","tag-sangiovese","tag-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}