Community Tasting Notes 25

• liber Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 28, 2024 - 10th of 12, opened an hour then splash decanted, perfect level, cork third stained, turning quite brown on rim, flavours now becoming much more harmonious and layered but underlying tannins although softening still unresolved, fine length and persistence, upside yet in this super vintage, 10+ years. F+ (18).

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• MuddyBoots wrote:

  January 12, 2023 - Solid cork. Quite dark color. Very mature nose - with overwhelming notes of balsamic and not much else. Much fresher on the palate but with a great deal more tar than roses. Tannins still quite raw, gripping the gums with real persistent dryness. Good length. There is also some new wood here. Lacks the florality and elegance of Cannubi as well as its fine grained tannin. Not sure what to make of this. Ultimately, though not flawed, it is today not a particularly joyous experience to drink this. Bought on release.
  
  Next day - More composed; less explosively balsamic on the nose; still marked by the new wood; much more enjoyable. Reinforcing the need for a long decant.

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• Ian S wrote:

  June 18, 2021 - This case definitely showed bottle variation, with this bottle fully mature and moving into over-maturity. This was very much apparent in the nose which majored on earth and mushroom. Better on the palate with more complexity and the fruit still hanging in there, albeit more tertiary. Tannins still rather grippy.
  
  Caught this bottle whilst still alive, enjoyable and interesting (the wine that is, I'm not sure I've ever been interesting). However unlike some of the recent bottles that have been good, this one would never have found that peak of shedding the tannins before the flavours fully develop.

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• liber Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 23, 2020 - 9th of 12, decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, unchanged since bottle noted in 14, attractive purity to the fruit, suaver than the more thug like Anselma Adasi 96 on same night, seems young still. F+ (18).

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• MikeATL Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 11, 2018 - Still fairly young, a little herbal, but with a good depth of fruit, a touch of tar, and plenty of ripe tannin. It demands aeration now, and even a few hours after a vigorous double decant it continued to open up and expand in the glass.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Poderi Luigi Einaudi
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Cannubi
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo
• UPC Codes 726452003931, 726452012896

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• In Cellars 65 (39%)
• Consumed 102 (61%)

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