Community Tasting Notes 56

• Nanda wrote: 93 points

  November 12, 2022 - Tasted side-by-side with the 01 Red Label Rabaja, and this is no slouch with terrific concentration and flavor in a more rustic, powerful style. But clearly a step or two behind the Giacosa (and a fraction of the cost).

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• acyso wrote: 93 points

  November 12, 2022 - Nebbiolos, white truffles, Volume VII (Chicago, IL): No. 14173. (I love the $39 Pastaworks sticker on this bottle.) It's perhaps ever so slightly (read: very much) unfair to open this next to the Giacosa, but hey, they're both Rabajà riservas right? For me the difference is really not so much about the relative quality of the winemaking but boils down to more of a stylistic choice. The Produttori is far more rustic, with more earth notes and tannins that are much larger grained. The quality of the fruit here is indisputable. To my palate however, this bottle showed more bottle age than the Giacosa, but there's a confluence of factors that could have caused that.

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• Nutty08 Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 19, 2021 - Terrific wine in a great place. Was aromatic immediately upon opening but benefitted from a 2hr decant. Beautiful floral nose with the classic “rose petal and tar” notes. Powerful red fruit driven palate. Tannins present but in check. Strong finish with tar and leather notes.

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• asgerG wrote: 93 points

  November 2, 2020 - DnP. Mature garnet red, yellow edged, 4.5. Generous mature bouquet, dried roses, paint, sweet botti, complex. Harmonious, mT, mA, elegant, mature fruit, long finish. Drink now - 2030. What a pleasant surprise. This has certainly open up into a classic elegant Nebbiolo. I didn’t see that coming eight years ago! Alas, this was my last bottle
  +One day: Even more pronounced and still very resilient.

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• Al Ehrhardt wrote:

  August 8, 2020 - Purchased four bottles upon release and this is the first one opened. Awesome, all four of us loved it. Well balanced, great nose. No rush to open my last bottles.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Produttori del Barbaresco
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Rabajà
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco
• UPC Code 665529001527

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• In Cellars 553 (57%)
• Consumed 409 (43%)

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