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2001 Conterno Fantino Barolo Sorì Ginestra
Nebbiolo
- Italy
- Piedmont
- Langhe
- Barolo
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Community Tasting Notes 121
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Simba-wine Likes this wine: 99 points
March 28, 2024 - Onto this years Easter wines🥳🥳🥳😍😍😍
This would have been clearly a 💯 pointer bottle, if the prior wine was such a clear step ahead, so this might remain the forever 99+ wine for me🤣
My prior detailed tasting notes are spot on just the tannins are finally after 23 years fully melting!
The wine has plenty of life ahead, would say now until 2035.
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JWG wrote: 92 points
January 6, 2024 - Still a lovely barolo, but not at the intense level in 2017.
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Jimswinecellar Likes this wine: 92 points
December 25, 2023 - Beautiful wine
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chokkon Likes this wine:
November 20, 2023 - no decant; 18c; bottle opened for a couple of hours; clean, coppered color; subtle nose of tobacco, raspberries; intense initial attack, rasping tannins over solid red fruit, giving minute-long, gripping finish (tannins softened nicely with some more hours); schist, iron water, raspberries, cherries, tobacco; a huge wine after so many years in the cellar, could hang in for another decade; 18.5
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Montesquieu Likes this wine: 96 points
August 27, 2023 - It feels great when a wine delivers on a special evening with friends after patiently aging in your cellar for 15+ years. This is a fine aged Barolo of high caliber. Others provided good descriptors, so I'll just suggest that it's peaking now, relative to my other two bottles consumed in years past. A one hour decant proved sufficient.
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By Antonio Galloni
Piedmont Report: Checking in on the 2001 Baroli (Apr 2012) (link)(Conterno-fantino Barolo Sorì Ginestra) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
Italy’s 2001 Barolo and 2001 and 2003 Barbaresco vintages (Oct 2006) (link)(Conterno-fantino Barolo Sori Ginestra) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
November/December 2004, IWC Issue #117 (link)(Conterno Fantino Barolo Sori Ginestra) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2001
- Type Red
- Producer Conterno Fantino
- Varietal Nebbiolo
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Sorì Ginestra
- Country Italy
- Region Piedmont
- SubRegion Langhe
- Appellation Barolo
- UPC Codes 726452006437, 726452007588, 726452013237
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 22 (1%)
- In Cellars 1,355 (54%)
- Consumed 1,115 (45%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
assorted cheeses, Eve Seafood Lasagna, NY Strip Steak, Seared tuna, Thanksgiving DinnerWho Likes This Wine
98% Like It 48 votes
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- VarietyNebbiolo
- VineyardSorì Ginestra
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo
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