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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.4 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 37 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by winemaker on 12/9/2022 & rated 94 points: 4th of 6. Previous notes apply. Gorgeous wine. Very long. Too bad the price on this has gone up so much! (760 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 3/30/2022 & rated 93 points: Love this wine. Savory, herbal notes accompany hints of red fruits. Transparent Ruby. Looked a bit brownish initially. Beautiful wine likely at peak now and for a few more years. The price on this wine has gone up a lot in the past few years. I paid $36 for this. New releases are $68-80 each! (880 views) | | | Tasted by MichaelJennings on 11/1/2021 & rated 92 points: Some oxidation when first opened. Blows away to reveal a fully mature Nebbiolo perhaps just past its peak. Light, translucent, lovely blend of red fruit and some herbs. (1075 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 11/29/2020 & rated 92 points: Similar to the last bottle. Indicative that this vintage has rounded the top of the curve. Delicious for sure, but needs to be drunk up in the next year or two. (1406 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 11/25/2020 & rated 93 points: Terrific wine. Pale transparent ruby. Has a nose of mountain herbs. Has a red fruited, resiny, minerally quality to it. Fairly tart. Floral notes and a tiny hint of tar. Some grip on the finish. (1266 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 9/2/2020 & rated 94 points: Gorgeous wine! Like a cross of Barolo and Burgundy. Tannins are mostly resolved. Really interesting herbal note too. Nice complexity. Glad I have more. (1004 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 8/19/2020 & rated 92 points: This was a delicious bottle, but did not have the extraordinary qualities of the past few bottles. Just seemed a bit closed. Nothing wrong, and certainly rich and tasty, but a more muted nose and a more muted palate compared to the recent ones. (972 views) | | | Tasted by SteveG on 4/9/2019 & rated 92 points: Two years later, no notable change. (1426 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 4/8/2019 & rated 95 points: Just another stunning bottle of this vintage. My notes from February are true, though this one has even a somewhat bigger acidic backbone, and seems younger -- no real sense of the 11 age on this wine. (1182 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 2/4/2019 & rated 96 points: This is just getting more fabulous every year. Big nose of tar and herbs and floral and bit of pine. Just a killer nose. Palate is still bright with cherry fruit, in contrast to earlier bottles that had gotten darker. A hit of acidity and light tannins. A great great version of this Ferrando carema. (1204 views) | | | Tasted by bags on 12/23/2018: drinking great after 2 hr decant (1128 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 8/23/2018 & rated 93 points: Identical to the january bottle. Dependably wonderful nebbiolo. (1226 views) | | | Tasted by AndrewR on 3/6/2018 & rated 98 points: Just a stunner. One of a kind ala Musar, Bea, etc. Deep, long, herbaceous, cool mountain wine. (1516 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 3/3/2018: That’ tast s awesome. (1408 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 1/26/2018 & rated 93 points: Soft tar and dark cherry nose. Palate is chewy, spicy, dark cherry with tarry note. Excellent version of Carema. (1187 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 7/20/2017 & rated 93 points: Same wonderful qualities as the February bottle, which see those notes. (1625 views) | | | Tasted by bags on 4/8/2017: opening up with air. not a whole lot of fruit, but it dances on the tongue. I love high altitude nebbiolo. (1687 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 2/25/2017 & rated 93 points: Soft tar and dark cherry nose that is delicious. Palate is chewy, spicy, dark cherry with more tarry note. Tingly tannins give a zing at the end. (1521 views) | | | Tasted by SteveG on 2/17/2017 & rated 92 points: From memory, At Dino's Grotto, with mushroom braised veal breast. Transparent and intensely fresh nebbiolo, delicious and certainly seemed young and hardy. (1440 views) | | | Tasted by bags on 12/23/2016: what others have said. needed 30-45 minutes in the glass to show its stuff. will evolve for many years (1531 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 4/21/2016 & rated 93 points: This year continues to have some improvement. It is luscious. Nose of tar and pine. Palate is getting darker than previous years -- more mushroomy, forest floor, with dark fruit rather than bright fruit. Modest tannins. (1751 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 9/24/2015 & rated 92 points: Significant difference upward on this bottle. Tar and pine on the nose -- even in first 15 min. Fairly classic dark nose that is redolent of good nebbiolo fruit. Palate is bright, juicy, tart, with a background of forest floor. Moderate tannins kick in and round out the satisfying quality. (1952 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 3/27/2015 & rated 90 points: Young, not showing, closed. Perhaps needs another couple of years. Strawberries and pine on the nose, not the usual nebbiolo. Palate is biting with bright fruit and significant acid and modest tannins. (2285 views) | | | Tasted by JWG on 12/9/2014 & rated 91 points: Still quite young. This could very well have a value around 95, but for now it is still youngish and gawky. Nose is redolent of strawberries and cinnamon and pine (not my usual sense of this carema!) Palate is brisk, biting with significant acid playing against the very bright fruit, though some dark cherry notes occur. And there is a background of light tannins coming out at the end. Seems like it might be a less deep year for this nebbiolo, but can't tell until more time passes. (2517 views) | | | Tasted by BAGWAF on 7/20/2014 & rated 91 points: Feels as if it is just coming into its own, with a fine future in front of it. (2864 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vinous, Piemonte: 2009 and 2010 Barbaresco Plus Other New Releases (Oct 2012)
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| Ferrando Producer websiteNebbioloNebbiolo is a red grape indigenous to the Piedmont region of Italy in the Northwest. The grape can also be found in other parts of the world, though they are not as respected.
Nebbiolo is often considered the "king of red wines," as it is the grape of the famed wines of Barolo DOCG, Barbaresco DOCG, and Roero DOCG. It is known for high tannins and acidity, but with a distinct finesse. When grown on clay, Nebbiolo can be very powerful, tannic, and require long aging periods to reach its full potential. When grown on sand, the grape exhibits a more approachable body with more elegant fruit and less tannins, but still has high aging potential.
"Nebbiolo" is named for the Italian word, "nebbia", which means "fog", in Italian and rightfully so since there is generally a lot of fog in the foothills of Piedmont during harvest.
Nebbiolo is a late-ripening variety that does best in a continental climate that boasts moderate summers and long autumns. In Piedmont, Nebbiolo is normally harvested in October.
More links:
Varietal character (Appellation America) | Nebbiolo on CellarTrackerItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorPiedmont Vignaioli Piemontesi (Italian only)
On weinlagen-infoNorthern PiedmontRegional History:
The wines of Piemonte are noted as far back as Pliny's Natural History. Due to geographic and political isolation, Piemonte was without a natural port for most of its history, which made exportation treacherous and expensive. This left the Piemontese with little incentive to expand production. Sixteenth-century records show a mere 14% of the Bassa Langa under vine - most of that low-lying and farmed polyculturally. In the nineteenth century the Marchesa Falletti, a French woman by birth, brought eonologist Louis Oudart from Champagne to create the first dry wines in Piemonte. Along with work in experimental vineyards at Castello Grinzane conducted by Camilo Cavour - later Conte di Cavour, leader of the Risorgimento and first Prime Minister of Italy - this was the birth of modern wine in the Piedmont. Outside of the Langhe, the most prominent area of wine production in Piemonte is the chain of sub-alpine hills that run through the provinces of Novara and Vercelli. Here the Romans introduced spionia, an ancient variety that thrived in foggy climates. Whether this was in fact a genetic ancestor of Nebbiolo is unknown, but the derivation of its name, Spanna, is now how the locals refer to this noble grape. The Morainic soils, mostly deposited along the Sesia River, are of glacial origin and produce more medium-bodied, aromatically driven nebbiolo than in the Langhe. The appellations of note in Novara are Gattinara, Lessona and Bramaterra, and in Vercelli are Ghemme, Fara, Boca, and Szizzano.
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