Community Tasting Notes 21

• Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 28, 2023 - Slow oxed for 4 hours before serving. Surprisingly open for a Monfortino. The wine showed beautifully with morello cherries, tar, rose petals, herbs and graphite. On the palate, it was substantial yet expressing weightless power. Excellent for a young Barolo if you disregard the price. 93-94

  Comment

• hrazdiiv wrote: 90 points

  June 25, 2023 - First time trying this and came away quite unimpressed. The wine is a medium ruby garnet red with just the slightest hint of bricking st the rim. The nose is basically shut down and was giving no quarter. Very hard to coax something out of our bottle so not sure how all the other tasters got their many descriptors. After maybe an additional hour in the glass it started to open up ever so slightly with a solid brooding core of dark red fruit with some medium tannins. Finish was not particularly long. I get the joke here - these are 50 year wines that are shut down now and not ready to drink. But I think at 18 years and 2.5 hours decanted (again, plus another hour in the glass) should give you SOMETHING. I didn’t get the foundation for this to improve massively: not the tannins, fruit or acid. I’m an avid Barolo taster and was with two other highly experienced tasters who concurred that this was disappointing; and I’m not even taking into account the price. At best, I will only taste this wine again if very old, 30yrs+. Tasted alongside a Palmer 2004, no comparison.

  Comment

• robertek wrote: 91 points

  March 11, 2022 - Oh so young...

  Comment

• Fred_Bo wrote: 93 points

  October 20, 2021 - WOW. What beast

  Comment

• Papies wrote: 94 points

  October 9, 2021 - Annual Pilgrimage to Piedmont - 2021 Edition; 10/8/2021-10/10/2021 (Piemonte, Italy): Just getting settled and about to start its journey into real greatness. This relative off vintage delivers at age 16 and albeit delicious and very welcoming one gets the feeling that they are only getting a small glimpse of real potential here. Soft and elegant, balanced and very much open . Very pretty and classy. 94 for now .

  Comment

Pro Reviews 7

Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Giacomo Conterno
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva Monfortino
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 12 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,438 (83%)
• Consumed 273 (16%)

Food Pairing

Who Likes This Wine

More About This Wine