Community Tasting Notes 7

• acyso wrote: 90 points

  May 23, 2018 - Marcarini Brunate vertical (Chicago, IL): This is one of the better-showing older bottles tonight. There's a good amount of fruit here, showing a mix of red and black, and a moderate hint of perfume as well. Structured, but with just enough fruit to balance it (certainly, I wouldn't have minded a splash more fruit). This bottle, unlike many others, still showed very fresh and there weren't any dirty earthy notes here.

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 90 points

  September 2, 2017 - Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind, I thought this was a mid-level Burgundy (1er Cru from 1995 or 1996), not getting the floral or licorice character I'd expect from Piedmont. Fully mature red cherry with plenty of firm tannins, but enough fruit to stand up. Group seemed to enjoy this more than I did today.

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• KeithAkers wrote: 92 points

  March 19, 2013 - Osso Buco Night (My place, Chicago IL): Nose: Very pretty and perfumed nose with balanced tones of dried roses, strawberries, tar tones, florals, and some roasted herbs and spices.
  
  Taste: Medium bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The tannins are more refined with the structure being very well balanced along with pretty tones of dried roses, strawberries, tar, roasted herbs, and a touch of wild spices on the back end.
  
  Overall: This was drinking beautifully. This has a regal quality on both the nose and palate with a refined sense as well.

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• Eric Guido Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 12, 2011 - 1995: Barolo Retrospective (i Trulli, NYC): The nose showed dark red fruits and moist earth with sweet spice and cedar wood. On the palate, I found a full-bodied expression of ripe, sweet cherry, cedar and herbs against a balanced structure of tannin, leading to a pleasant finish that turned the sweet cherries to sour berries.

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• Doug House wrote:

  June 26, 2009 - Lovely Barolo nose, but then hard sledding to drink. Acidity is over the top tonight and the tannins quite coarse. This has happened to me before with the 1995 Le Sera & a night in the fridge helped a lot. We'll see.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1995
• Type Red
• Producer Marcarini
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Brunate
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• In Cellars 38 (45%)
• Consumed 47 (55%)

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