critic reviews
The Fattoria le Pupille 2011 Saffredi is ripe and thickly textured with heavy aromas and a very open-knit approach. The wine's texture is almost gritty or granular with baked fruit, road tar, baking chocolate and toasted spice. The effect is big and bold, and there's no mistaking this as anything but a hot-vintage release. The wine's drinking window is closing and its complexity is fading.
Good bright medium-dark red. Musky aromas of ripe dark cherry, plum, sweet pipe tobacco and underbrush, complicated by a hint of graphite. Sweet, plush and deep; almost chunky in its voluptuous, fleshy mouthfeel, but shows more inner-mouth tension and edgy acidity than the Poggio Valente. Finishes broad, subtle and long, with big, ripe, youthful tannins and lingering flavors of red fruits and spices. I'd hold this for at least a couple years in search of more nuance. Incidentally, the 2010 bottling is still quite brooding today and is nowehere near ready to go.