Community Tasting Notes 18

• MS86 Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 27, 2022 - Clear, pale rust with heavy bricking.
  
  Powerful nose with freshly laid tar, strawberry, pot pourri, leather and earth.
  
  Palate is powerful, structured with firm tannin. Quite warm
  
  Flavours are strawberry with a sweet rose finish.
  
  Complex wine that will continue to mature and evolve over the next decade.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  November 29, 2021 - Return to Piemonte!; 11/25/2021-12/4/2021 (Castello di Sinio, Alba, other various locations): Back to back with the 99 and again these were the first wines we’ve had this trip with any real age. More secondary in style and a lot more gravitas to them. The fruit is secondary (although still there). Bigger and a bit bolder. Visiting the winery so interesting to see what style was used for these and how that compares to the wine being made now. Certainly paired well with a truffle menu

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• AdVinoRosso Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 17, 2020 - Pleasantly surprised as I thought the window of drinkability might have closed on this one but it did not disappoint.

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• canan wrote: 88 points

  April 7, 2017 - BYO - Michael (Michaels place): Black currant fruit. A modern style but also fresh and elegant.

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  April 15, 2016 - Moderately translucent pomegranate color. Brooding, rich and slightly oaky nose with aromas of ripe black cherries, some juicy plummy tones, a little bit of sweet toasty oak, a lifted hint of sweet, balsamic VA and a touch of savory wood. The wine is ripe, rich and moderately full-bodied on the palate with complex flavors of juicy black cherries, peppery oak spice, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of sweet, dark-toned oaky character, light dusty tones, a hint of tar and a touch of ripe raspberry. The wine is enjoyably high in acidity with quite ample, firm and grippy tannins. The finish is long, quite grippy and tannic with complex, acid-driven flavors of sour cherries, tart lingonberries, some toasty oak spice, a little bit of black raspberry, light developed tones of licorice and a hint of tar.
  
  A somewhat modern Barolo, but very balanced, harmonious and enjoyable for one. The wine seems to be going into the right direction, but there's still a lot of life left here at the age of 17½ years. Most likely the wine will continue to go up for many more years and most likely it won't be hitting its apogee at least within the next 10 years - at least it feels like the wine could use a lot more time to integrate those woodier tones better with the fruit. Overall a very good and pleasant vintage of Marcenasco with a great deal of future cellaring potential.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Renato Ratti
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Marcenasco
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• In Cellars 103 (59%)
• Consumed 71 (41%)

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