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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.5 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by hajoha on 10/23/2022 & rated 95 points: Aldo Conterno Barolo Romirasco 2010.
Svært svært pent.
Nesa er til å dø for.
Fantastisk frukt og struktur.
Du kan si hva du vil om eikebruken, men den fruktkvaliteten her takler det på strak arm.
Dette er klasse-Barolo!
Svært ung fortsatt og river bra i munnhulen.
Klokkerent.
Som en bulldoser i finish.
Varer en evighet med markante tanniner.
Alt er på stell her.
A legend in the making. 95p (1954 views) | | | Tasted by Ramberg on 9/17/2022 & rated 98 points: Eight years since I first tasted this at the winery in 2014.
Allot has happened since then, but perhaps not so much with this wine?
Still somewhat a beast of a Barolo - in a good way thought.
Nose is just amazing - overloading the system - oozing with a fruit mixture of dark cherries, brighter strawberries, plums, black berries, and a garden of red roses all mixed with layers of smoke, oak, stones, herbs, tea, tobacco, mushrooms, tar, orange peel, truffles.
Palate is nowhere different from the nose.
Big boy, filled with dark fruits, cherries, blackberries, and a secondary layer of strawberries and wild strawberries on top.
Herbs and licorice, salmiak and traces of spices, pepper and tar.
Extremely well balanced between acidity and fruit.
This is in it's teenage phase right now, and I can not even imagine how it will turn out on the other side - as an adult?
Pure magic in a bottle.
Might reach the magic 100 points?
Great tonight, wish I had more time to just sit and enjoy this masterpiece, but we had many wines to finish off, so see you again in a few years.
I scribbled 98 on my note tonight, due to being more closed than when absolutely fresh of the barrel when i rated it higher ion 2014 - but this wine will go thru phases so still allot to find out here, all is there for the patient.
98 - 100 (414 views) | | | Tasted by bucktooth22 on 8/19/2022 & rated 93 points: Decanted 4 hours. Dark blackish ruby, long slow legs, on 👃 first peppery leather notes followed by graphite, licorice, prune, woodsy wet forest. Dry, full milky body, very highly acidic, ultra frontal tannins with mouth sucking ripe raspberry finish. Good to drink now or wait a few more years in bottle (this crazy acidity should be able to evolve the bottle). (1691 views) | | | Tasted by Condrieu82 on 8/5/2022 & rated 95 points: Decanted 2h30m. Dark ruby color, long legs. Delicate nose with beautiful notes of tar, violets, aromatic wood, cherries. Palate is just amazing - so much going on here. Great structure and very well balanced, with nice acidity and chalky tannins. The wine is medium/-full bodied, with notes of violets, garrigue, dark cherries - textbook Bussia here. Mouth-coating tannins - so young still - a slight touch of alcohol, anise on the nice, long ending.
Drink now with plenty of decanting - but hopefully you can hold on 5-6 more years. A fantastic wine! (1676 views) | | | Tasted by brasstab on 4/25/2021 & rated 97 points: Transcendent. Tar and Roses, sure, but also banana — yes, banana — as noted by Uncle Andre. It continued to develop over the next three hours, over a long Arizona night. Sweet, savory, brambly and elegant. All at once. (2972 views) | | | Tasted by Mnawacki on 3/5/2021 & rated 97 points: OMG...perhaps the best bottle I've ever consumed! Blueberry and eucalyptus on opening. One hour post decant it was like biting into a fresh plum. Two hours post decant it started to really show concentrated blueberry/ blackberry/ plums and cedar notes. Tannins are firm but well integrated, medium finish. Love everything about this...Drinking beautifully now after minimum 2 hour decant, but will continue to improve and likely not hit its peak for another decade. (2698 views) | | | Tasted by Euge67 on 2/22/2020 & rated 94 points: Sono molto scettico sulla finestra temporale indicata per bere un vino nonostante anch'io la indico.
E' per questo che non ho avuto esitazioni ad aprire questa bottiglia di 9 anni nonostante le indicazioni fossero di aspettarne almeno altri 4.
C'è poco da dire: molto, ma molto buono. Già qualche terziario si sentiva. Solo il naso era molto chiuso. In bocca però manteneva le aspettative. Certo giovane, ma per me e i miei gusti perfettamente godibile ora. (3119 views) | | | Tasted by wineappreciation on 7/28/2018 & rated 93 points: Roses, blueberry, tar, licorice, leather; smooth, tightly knit, powerful, dense, prolonged; clearly too young but very considerable future potential (4809 views) | | | Tasted by johnh1001 on 7/19/2015 & rated 92 points: Very ripe and Rich nose of dark fruit, chocolate, plum, tar and roses. Full and plush in the mouth. Quite a bit of oak. Big tannin but the fruit is there to match it. (11248 views) | | | Tasted by swapdoc on 11/24/2014: Piedmont -- Aldo Conterno Winery Visit: 6 wks on the skins, 32 month in wood (?). An amazing wine. Spicy, rich nose of sap, roses, meat. Long, with a gorgeous balance between mineral wild berry juice, ripe fruit, and integrated though present tannins. Complex nose, soil close to Cicala in composition, rich in blue magnesium. Conterno did produce Gran Bussia in ’10; yet Romirasco is GS, for all practical purposes. Tasting ’10 Romirasco next to ’06 Gran Bussia (70% Romirasco, 15% each of Colonello and Cicala) shows just what a tremendous value Romirasco is. This wine should be and will be selling for the price of GS – grab it while you can. The best ’10 Barolo I’ve tasted. Described Aldo Conterno Baroli in the past as Burgundian in style, but this is different. The heft, viscosity is more reminiscent of a Guigal single vineyard Cote Rotie. Galloni is simply off the mark with this gem. (10173 views) | | | Tasted by MWiking on 6/2/2014 & rated 100 points: a beautiful burgundy-red wine with mineral, stonedust and a burgundy-feeling over it. alot of spices are also shown on the nose.
The Taste is still hidden, This wine will need time but under the surface I can hint dark fat fruit, layer after layer with orangepeel, herbs, spices, mineral, black cherries, wild raspberried and truffles,
I was knocked down by the 2009, but Im sure the 2010 and will be even better. This wine is made by the hands of a magician. (11352 views) | | | Tasted by Ramberg on 5/24/2014 & rated 99 points: Tasted at the winery.
Another just breathtaking and beautiful 2010.
This might be the highlight for me of the whole Piemonte trip.
What a nose!
Minerals, smoke, pepper, spices, stone dust, cherries, raspberries, perfume, transparency and airy red lingering fruit and on top of this a touch of lovely truffles.
This is such a precise and fine expression of terroir, grape and vintage.
On the palate this unveils layers and layers of complex impressions.
It has a tremendous focus, structure, depth and length.
It’s like an abyss of impressions, coming at you in wave after wave.
Big and tight tannins, acidity and transparency builds this into a true Grand Vin!
(98 – 100) (8958 views) | | | Tasted by FamilyLarsson on 5/24/2014 & rated 97 points: Provat på besök hos Aldo Conterno med Giacomo som fantastiskt inspirerande och trevlig värd.
Ännu ett fantastiskt vin från Aldo Conterno!
Vilken underbar och elegant doft av hallon, jordgubbar, mineral, apelsinskal, tjära och viss kryddighet.
Vilken otrolig struktur och balans det här vinet har med kraftfulla tanniner, vass syra och underbar frukt. En ung Barolo kan knappast bli mycket bättre än så här. (9791 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2010 Barolo: Flying High Again (Jan 2014)
(Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Romirasco) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, November/December 2013, IWC Issue #171
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| Poderi Aldo Conterno Producer website
U.S. Importer/DistributorPoderi Aldo Conterno Barolo RomirascoThe Romirasco vineyard is high on the Bussia Soprana hill. It is 55 years old, facing south/south-west on calcareous clay soil, rich in calcium carbonate and iron. The higher concentration of iron and limestone in the soil gives a powerful wine. Conterno owns 100% of Romirasco, which is their most important single vineyard Barolo. Fruit from Romirasco also makes up 70% of the Gran Bussia blend. The vines are replanted from time to time. The main variety of Nebbiolo is Lampia and its rootstock is Rupestris du Lot.
Aldo Conterno once produced the Romirasco Barolo only in vintages that the estate felt weren’t ideal enough for its famed Granbussia: however, since 2004, the estate has made it a yearly occurrence. Deriving from the same Bussia vineyard that lends its grapes to Aldo Conterno’s famed Granbussia Riserva, Vigna Romirasco spends an extra two or three months in cask before bottling.NebbioloNebbiolo 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 CellarTrackerRomirasco On weinlagen-infoItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorPiedmont Vignaioli Piemontesi (Italian only)
On weinlagen-infoLanghe Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Roero | Union of Producers of Albese Wines (Albeisa)BaroloRegional History:
The wines of Piedmont are noted as far back as Pliny's Natural History. Due to geographic and political isolation, Piedmont was without a natural port for most of its history, which made exportation treacherous and expensive. This left the Piedmontese 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 frenchwoman 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. At the heart of the region and her reputation are Alba and the Langhe Hills. This series of weathered outcroppings south of the Tanaro River is of maritime origin and composed mainly of limestone, sand and clay, known as terra bianca. In these soils -located mainly around the towns of Barolo and Barbaresco -- the ancient allobrogica, now Nebbiolo, achieves its renowned fineness and power.
map of Barolo DOCG
An interesting thread on Traditional vs. Modern Barolo producers:
https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=106291 |
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