Community Tasting Notes 8

• JRavn Likes this wine: 89 points

  March 16, 2024 - Dense, still with apparent oak, dark red berries, tobacco

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• Rune Schwartz Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 29, 2023 - Excellent concentration of the fruit. Medium body fresh acid and mefium tannins. Well balanced with good lenght.

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• Jason Wu Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 3, 2023 - App: Deep Ruby
  Nose: Med+ intensity,  dark plum, violet, dark chocolate, clove, liquorice, dark cherry, prume, truffle, savory, leather, developing.
  Palate: Dry, med+ acidity, high tannins (chalky texture), high alcohol, full body, med+ intensity, dark cherry, dark plum, dark chocolate, expresso, med+ finish.
  Overall, this is a very good wine. Tasty and fruity on the palate with a bit ageing notes developed. Jason said it's a typical Italian wine and got it in the blind tasting.

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• Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 15, 2022 - appearance: Med Ruby
  Nose: Med+ intensity, chicken stock, salty dark plum, savoury, toast, clove, umami, 牛肉味精味，
  Palate: Dry, high acidity, med+ tannins, med+ body, med alcohol, med+ intensity, dark plum, prume，fig, dark cherry, chocolate, med+ finish.
  Overall, a very good wine. Well balanced with lingering savoury notes.

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• Jason Wu Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 26, 2021 - Appearance: medium ruby.
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of black cherry, sandalwood, bay leaf, savoury, black olives, cherry ripe, toast. It’s developing.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium plus tannins with fine texture, high alcohol, medium plus body, medium plus flavour intensity, medium plus finish.
  Very good wine. Start to enter it’s drinking window.
  Beautiful and perfumed on the nose with approachable fruit singing and touches of Piedmont characters of earth, herbs and savoury notes. The alcohol is 14.5% but It doesn’t feel like that high because the acidity balances it perfectly. Such a lovely wine! One of the few Barbera that really astonish me. Another one impressed me this much was a Michele Chiarlo Nizza La Court 2013, which was more mature and integrated with red fruits. Give this one another year or two, it will probably further improve.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer La Spinetta (Rivetti)
• Varietal Barbera
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Gallina
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Alba
• Appellation Barbera d'Alba

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• Pending Delivery 3 (3%)
• In Cellars 58 (54%)
• Consumed 46 (43%)

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