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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.9 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 87 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by astroman on 2/23/2024: 1999 2000 Barolo Barbaresco (Gemma): Impression, potpurri, good mouthfeel and acid. (489 views) | | | Tasted by Sean Tay on 2/23/2024 & rated 94 points: Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, spices, toast, dried cranberries. Medium+ acidity and medium+ tannin. (420 views) | | | Tasted by jamesabdavis on 5/6/2023: Consistent with my last note although I had to open an oxidised one and a corked one first.
The nose is really perfumed and floral (lovely violet/rose pastille quality) but with a lovely Barolo mineral earthiness as I noted last time but it is quite robustly fruity and quite ripe on the palate, with a lovely inner sweetness. Perhaps the comparison with the 99 underplayed this.
This is a fabulous Barolo: perfumed, elegant, yet rich.
With time and air this just gets better and better: extraordinary perfume. (1036 views) | | | Tasted by kenv on 2/4/2023 & rated 92 points: NK Monprivato Vertical (Chez Goldberg, Greenwich Village, NYC): [Opened around 4pm, then double-decanted around 7pm.] Muted black fruit nose. Long and tasty, but not the depth or complexity of the last 5 or 6 wines. Still, a tasty beverage to drink over the coming decade. (1417 views) | | | Tasted by cct on 2/4/2023 & rated 91 points: Double decanted in the AM and drunk over several hours
Ripe, round, and perfumed on the nose with plump red fruits and florals. Fleshy and well balanced if less detailed and structured than the other wines. It's supple and well balanced, but lacks relative depth and complexity of its peers. Nonetheless, a lovely wine drinking well right now I'd drink up on this one. While I suspect it will hold for some time, I doubt it improves. 91. (1304 views) | | | Tasted by Pinotfanbg on 3/15/2022 & rated 90 points: Purchased shortly after release from Garagiste. My bottles have always had a slightly volatile and stewed fruit aspect to the scent and flavors on opening. This mostly blows off with air revealing a very pretty, smooth and silky barolo with, cherry, rose, and sandalwood flavors. Long finish. Very nice but not up to the level of some of the bottles other tasters have reported. No evidence of heat damage on the cork or neck. Extra long cork still looks fresh and intact. These have been well stored since purchase. Minor heat damage in shipping or is this typical for this wine? I wish these were at the level of others reports as I have two more in the cellar. (1696 views) | | | Tasted by jamesabdavis on 10/10/2021: Pretty and high-toned nose, very floral. Really perfumed.
Light on the palate, very elegant. This lacks the stuffing of the 1999 but is not lacking persistence. Tannins slightly more apparent on the finish as a result.
A lovely pretty wine but the 99 is clearly in a different league. (1948 views) | | | Tasted by Tad GW on 7/11/2021 & rated 93 points: 50+5+13+17+8=93 (1927 views) | | | Tasted by Chimer on 12/4/2020 & rated 94 points: Beautiful stage of evolution, perfumed, rounded tannins - singing (2342 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 11/14/2020: White Truffles & Nebbiolo: Monprivato x5. This is the most is a touch flabby relative to the other four though still classic in flavor. Won't be as long lived as the 1990, though that's a high bar. (2796 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 11/14/2020 & rated 90 points: Nebbiolos, white truffles, Volume V (Chicago, IL): #12478/22366. This was my least favourite of the Monprivato flight -- it showed a surprising earthiness and overall just an unwillingness to come out and play. There are a few brown tones to the fruit here, as well as fairly prickly tannins. Probably best to let this age a little more given those tannins, though I don't clearly see in what aspect this wine would improve with aging -- this doesn't display the fruity opulence of 2000 to start, so further aging will probably continue to reduce the amount of fruit remaining. (3420 views) | | | Tasted by Tad GW on 7/1/2020: =50+5+12+17+8=92 (2225 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 4/24/2020 & rated 90 points: This wine is a tough one to figure out. I have had glorious, elegant bottles and some that have been flat and uninspired. This falls in the middle. I opened it two hours before drinking and my initial impression was terrible. Earth is a nice element n wine but this opened like a glass of dirt. After 90 minutes thing started to round out. Three hours in there are hints of lovely red fruits and rose, but this remains a stern, elemental wine that is all intellectual and not very emotional. A confounding bottling. (90) (2182 views) | | | Tasted by baroloboy55-2.0 on 4/16/2020 & rated 94 points: Glorious bottle. Apologies go good friend dbkitc who opened a bottle on my recommendation (and we shared notes during a Zoom tasting lagrst night. This might have been the highlight of some excellent drinking over the course of the shutdown. This has every single element that makes Monprivato such a great terroir in perfect balance and harmony but all scaled to this vintage. Bright red fruit inflected with rose petals (fresh and dried) and iron shavings, high toned, perhaps a hint of VA that adds to he enjoyment, great balance and nearly resolved tannins with all of the same elements. I know these notes are incomplete, but totally reminds me of unforgettable bottles of 85 and 89 but without the same heft and power, but all of the glorious notes perfectly balanced. (1782 views) | | | Tasted by KeithAkers on 1/13/2020 & rated 94 points: (mostly) Castiglione Falletto vs Serralunga, 2005-earlier (Osteria Langhe, Chicago IL): Nose: There is a great amount of perfume and depth right away with strawberries, red cherries, raspberries, black tea, licorice, spice notes, smoke, earth, tobacco, tar, rose petals, and wild flowers. The nose is enveloping and has kicked into that next gear as it has more of an ethereal quality right now.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with tart, high acidity and silky, high tannins. The structure is starting to pull back and let the feel shine as it's silky and refined with strawberries, red cherries, raspberries, spice notes, smoke, tobacco, black tea, earth, tobacco, rose petals, and a lot of wild flowers on the finish.
Overall: This has entered the awesome phase of its life. There is an immense amount of perfume and depth that shows off a lot of red fruits with the tertiary notes starting to emerge, but they don't dominate. This is right in that zone and is drinking beautifully. (1684 views) | | | Tasted by CADomer on 1/13/2020 & rated 95 points: What a wine! Pretty much everyone called it their WOTN. Perfumed red fruit, floral, fennel, all-spice, with fully integrated super fine tannins and a wonderful inner sweetness. This had that classic Burgundian elegance that you hope for in great Monprivato. (2123 views) | | | Tasted by pbaek on 5/25/2019: First bottle from a case of 12. Absolutely stunning. Perfumed nose, dried roses, tobacco, tar, red fruit. Understated, cool fruit, elegant on the palate, notes of tobacco and earth. Well balanced, great structure, focused and pure. Barolo the way I like it. (2622 views) | | | Tasted by Gcashman on 10/19/2018 & rated 92 points: Needed about an hour to open. Not much on the nose. Typical Barolo appearance, light bodied. On the palate fennel, game, some pencil, dried roses. Delicate and refined. Seems on the downside of the hill. (2826 views) | | | Tasted by cubswinws on 10/9/2018 & rated 94 points: Lovely wine with great nose and classic reddish brown color. Really drinking well now but no need to hurry as I suspect this wine still has many years in its future. (2744 views) | | | Tasted by Kavine on 5/11/2018 & rated 91 points: Opened up nicely after 1 1/2 hours. Slight minerality and tannins that were felt afterwards. (3248 views) | | | Tasted by jaggeral1 on 1/10/2018 & rated 91 points: In the seven years since I last tried this wine I cannot believe how much weight and heft it had gained. Rich, purple almost!, heady, classic tar and roses profile and a far more viscous texture than the ethereal bottle in 2010. This bottle felt just a little lacking in freshness and as enjoyable as it was I would have preferred a touch more elegance. Very instructive bottle though! (3418 views) | | | Tasted by MWiking on 11/14/2017 & rated 95 points: bästa mascarello jag druckit alla gånger, inte alls så jordgubbsfruktiga och lätta som de ofta kan vara utan ett vin med härlig mörk färg och kraft som jag inte fanns i dessa viner. kvällens yngsta vin. (3158 views) | | | Tasted by Duncan H on 11/8/2017 & rated 100 points: Absolutely sensational - my wine of the year and not far off my wine of the decade! I opened this with trepidation, fearing that it might be over the hill, but I needn't have worried.
Rich, light red in colour with some fading. A beautiful strawberry nose and long, complex palate. Supple and vibrant with very balanced acidity and tannins. Simply amazing! Barolo afficionados might want to keep this still further (and I suspect it might last a bit longer), but for me this was perfection.
Mrs H loved this too, but wouldn't have awarded anything like 100 points - 89 in fact! (2803 views) | | | Tasted by ryestraw on 4/14/2017 & rated 97 points: This was close to perfect. Bright red fruit, rose petals, and perfectly integrated tannins. This is why we drink Barolo. I wish I had more. (3493 views) | | | Tasted by Paui on 4/13/2017 & rated 94 points: Lovely, mature Barolo. This bottle was fully mature, however, notbeqsy to judge. I had a Produttori Montestefano '96 two weeks ago, which, though pretty elegant, was ways more powerful and present. Decantedthis wine for about two hours which wasn't necessary, I guess. This vintage ist fully mature in my view, I had 2000 Produttori Brabaresco several times a couple years ago, and can confirm the maturity there easiliy. Have another bottle, to open in a year or two. Very elegant wine though, worth it. Possibly improves, 93p+
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| Giuseppe E Figlio Mascarello Producer Website
Praelum: “One of the last remaining traditional giants of Barolo. Old Botti ferments and ageing. Mauro took over in 1960 from his dad and is ranked amongst the greats of Conterno and Bartolo Mascarello. Rustic, powerful coming from the famous single vineyard of Monprivato in Castiglione Falleto.”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 CellarTrackerMonprivato 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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