France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru
Lots of fresh apple, lemon, and lemon peel with an overall tart character, albeit with plenty of energy and good enough weight. Wonderfully fresh for the vintage.
Open 7 hours, 2 in decanter. Mostly mature red cherry with dried floral notes, hints of licorice. Persistent with good length, good enough weight. At a very good place now, unlikely to develop more complexity
Open 4 hours before serving. Dense and powerful red cherry with savory spice and faint floral notes. Backward for now, but so much powerful fruit clearly teasing us with its potential. I don't know if this needs 5 or 10 or 15 more years to fully express itself, but this needs more time.
Open for 5 hours before serving with a splash decant. An odd wine to me. Absolutely well polished, this is a charming wine but not classically Barolo to me. Yes, red cherry with spice, but this seems too modern and fleshy. But very enjoyable.
A big step up over the Rocche, lots here as well with a more classic Barolo fruit and spice profile. Red and black cherry , rich and well spiced, charming enough despite a faint hint of VA.
2019 Bérêche et Fils Champagne Campania Remensis 90 Points
France, Champagne
Bright berry and orchard fruit, both tart and taut with very good length.
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1999 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart 91 Points
France, Champagne
Completely and fully mature with baked apple notes throughout, good richness, good depth.
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2011 Domaine Henri Boillot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Mouchère 90 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru
Lots of fresh apple, lemon, and lemon peel with an overall tart character, albeit with plenty of energy and good enough weight. Wonderfully fresh for the vintage.
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2011 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Tre Tine 87 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
An odd wine for me. Floral start with red fruit that seems nearly ripe enough, but frankly a bit green and herbaceous. Others enjoyed this much more.
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2011 Giuseppe E Figlio Mascarello Barolo Monprivato 92 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Open 7 hours, 2 in decanter. Mostly mature red cherry with dried floral notes, hints of licorice. Persistent with good length, good enough weight. At a very good place now, unlikely to develop more complexity
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2004 Giuseppe E Figlio Mascarello Barolo Monprivato 94 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Open 4 hours before serving. Dense and powerful red cherry with savory spice and faint floral notes. Backward for now, but so much powerful fruit clearly teasing us with its potential. I don't know if this needs 5 or 10 or 15 more years to fully express itself, but this needs more time.
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2004 Massolino Barolo Margheria Flawed
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Opened 3 hours, 1 in decanter. Old school style, but borderline dirty. Good density. Flawed? Probably, but otherwise an 85 point wine tonight.
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2004 Vietti Barolo Rocche 90 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Open for 5 hours before serving with a splash decant. An odd wine to me. Absolutely well polished, this is a charming wine but not classically Barolo to me. Yes, red cherry with spice, but this seems too modern and fleshy. But very enjoyable.
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2004 Vietti Barolo Brunate 92 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
A big step up over the Rocche, lots here as well with a more classic Barolo fruit and spice profile. Red and black cherry , rich and well spiced, charming enough despite a faint hint of VA.
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2007 Vietti Barolo Brunate 92 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
So charming and well balanced red cherry and berry with licorice and floral notes. Very well balanced with good depth. Ready for enjoyment right now.
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1996 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d'Alba Flawed
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Certainly an off bottle, seemed slightly corked
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1996 Massolino Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Old, old school style in every respect. This comes across as a bit disjointed, needing more time to harmonize, but it is almost 30yo.
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1996 Vietti Barolo Riserva Villero Flawed
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
So much great fruit here, but there seems to be a touch of VA and also a touch of brett, but still 90 point wine despite those problems.
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2000 Alois Kracher Chardonnay TBA #7 Nouvelle Vague 90 Points
Austria, Burgenland, Neusiedlersee
Sweet and rich with good depth showing fresh and dried apricot with a maple syrup note. Good now.
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