Community Tasting Notes 36

• Cailles wrote: 95 points

  April 21, 2024 - From magnum. No detailed notes. Despite being a modern leaning Barolo with still some oak apparent, this was beautiful, fragrant, complex, with all the telltale Nebbiolo aromas, nicely structured and with a good tension. A wine that made everybody happy. If the wine can subsume the oak further, this could become even better. The depth, concentration, fruit and structure for long ageing are certainly there. Great.

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• sirpat00 wrote: 94 points

  March 23, 2024 - Tasted at a social event, brief notes only. From Magnum. Spice of anis, black tea and rose water. Slightly darker type of fruit (cherry mostly) along with char coal. The palate then shows much fresher, red type of berries. Highly palatable already, but with many years ahead.

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• EMAZurich Likes this wine: 97 points

  March 23, 2024 - Ja, keine klassische Barolo-Aromen, leichte Holz/Vanilletöne, vielleicht einen Touch zu süssliche Komponente wenn man jemandem „Barolo“ erklären will - aber mein Gott, war das trinkanimierend.
  Die zugrundeliegende Aromenstruktur war eindeutig Monforte (und ja, wenn man dann weiss was man trinkt erkennt man sogar Ginestra), rotbeerig (Waldbeeren), Trüffel, Rosenblätter. So geschmeidig am Gaumen, seidige Tannine, Eleganz, feine Säureklinge, superkomplex. Ein wirklich grosser Barolo, auch wenn der Jahrgang und der Ausbau nicht gerade einen Klassiker verspricht.

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• NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 23, 2024 - From magnum bottle. Riserva Rüncot is in the Gavarini sub-parcel of Ginestra in Monforte and the wine made in the most „modern“ way at Elio Grasso (I hate the descriptor modern). Long maceration, but also new Barrique is the treatment, while for the Casa Mate and Gavarini Chiniera they only use 25hl botti. Wow, this was really singing. Deep, powerful and stuructured, this is showing the deeper side of Ginestra and it‘s so different from the „regular“ Gavarini Chiniera. Notes of red and darker red fruit, menthol, mint, some pine, also plenty of rose petals and violets, still some vanilla and sweet spices, overall very complex and layered. It‘s pretty full-bodied, has medium-high acidity and medium+ tannin that is still there, but is also nicely buffered by the wealth of fruit. Super long finish. An epic Rüncot that is in a great place, but will have many years ahead.

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• bobvictor Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 20, 2024 - Last one unfortunately. A great example of a modern Barolo with plenty of runway ahead.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Elio Grasso
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Rüncot
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo
• UPC Code 836543000517

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 556 (66%)
• Consumed 282 (33%)

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