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| Drinking window: Drink between 2005 and 2013 (based on 5 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 86 pts. and median of 86 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by truittj on 6/27/2012 & rated 84 points: Sadly, a bit past it's prime. Still some really nice sour cherry notes, but a little flat. Not many tannins left. Still an interesting, if mellow, wine. Would be fun to pair with one 10 years younger. (1623 views) | | | Tasted by Kirk Grant on 12/22/2010 & rated 88 points: End of the year with the "Usual Suspects" (Sips Restaurant in Southwest Harbor, ME): Color: rusted ruby with a rust orange rim
Smell: Earth, funk, and dried red fruits
Taste: Tart red fruits and mushroom notes
Overall: The acidity and tannin on this wine were just too high given the lack of fruit for me to bring this into the next level where my friend was hoping it would be. Still a wonderful mature wine...I just think it needed some cheese to make it a tad more enjoyable... (3147 views) | | | Tasted by blancdeblancs on 12/17/2010: decanted 2 hours. fairly clear, brick color. very strong aromatics---dried herbs, tomato paste, mushroom, some brown sugar. medium-bodied. very smooth, a tangy, lingering finish. some very elegant tannic-texture. definitely in its last few years, but wow the aromatics are kickin'! (1885 views) |
| Nebbiolo Blend Exact position on weinlagen-info.deItaly 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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