Community Tasting Notes 16

• Axone wrote: 92 points

  July 4, 2021 - Bon vin, un peu trop chaleureux. A attendre encore quelques années.

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• Motz wrote: 94 points

  January 22, 2021 - Noteworthy bricking.
  
  Tasted over several hours. Fairly mute upon pulling the cork. The wine made an impressive showing after 2+ hours of air.
  
  Any fruitiness was tertiary, mostly dried or caked (Turkish apricot, fig, date, etc). The wine still offered a 'sweetness', in the form of richness, expressed by dried rose petals, pipe tobacco, forest picked mushrooms, black truffle, heavily worn saddle leather, coniferous forest sous-bois, including the 'sweet' smelling sap of spruce, fir, and cedar, and wafting hints of roofing tar. All these elements showed equally on the bouquet and palate.
  
  Still sporting medium acid and refined medium tannin. With air, the wine offered an impression of viscosity, particularly at the middle and back. The last several ounces featured sweet umami essences. Powerful yet suave finish. A great experience, which etched itself a place in my wine brain.

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• StasMedvedev.lv Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 22, 2018 - 🏅 Rating 92+/100 (4,25🌟)
  
  Gaja wines night 22.09.18
  
  Red berries, dusty aromas. Still tannic.
  Mid-level label of Gaja. It was tasted along with iconic Sperss '90 and you could see light years of difference between those. However if tasted on its own, that is very good Barolo with good vfm especially for overpriced Gaja.

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• theporkrail wrote: 89 points

  June 10, 2018 - Quite heavy on the oak work and maybe more of a Parker Barolo than the classic style which I prefer. The heavyvoak treatment muted the notes of roasted fennel seed and charred cherry. But of a what could of been wine

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• yipen Likes this wine:

  December 13, 2017 - This one is good with 30 to 1 hr decant in glass, color has some brick on edge. not too bad but not a standout Barolo as well. No longer tannic so I think should be ready to drink

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• Type Red
• Producer Gaja
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Dagromis
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo
• UPC Code 8032636149312

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• In Cellars 88 (42%)
• Consumed 120 (58%)

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