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• VinVet Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 3, 2024 - Black cherry nose with a hint of tar. Ripe red fruit on the palate bright acidity and surprisingly modest tannins that softened in the glass. Lengthy dry finish.

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• acidqueen wrote: 95 points

  January 6, 2024 - Intoxicating nose with menthol, sweet dark cherry, violet and earth. Decanted for 90 minutes this time which it needed. Medium red color; no signs of age. This continues to be a remarkable and elegant wine which I am glad to keep in my cellar longer. It drinks so well right now with the longer decant so there isn’t really a reason to wait a long time, but I do think it could improve a bit and it will certainly hold at this level for quite awhile. Just stunning.

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• Milos Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 22, 2023 - Cork was on good shape but very hard to remove in the restaurant. Not sure if this was cork or staff issue.
  Medium tawny colour , which seems appropriate for this wine. Nose just jumps out of the glass; very complex with the mid red fruity, spice, rose petals, and mild leader complexity. This alone is enough to make it a great wine. The palate is refined with fine tannins in balance with the overall weight of the wine and the fruit and acidity in balance. Almost ethereal and very traditional at the same time. Approachable now but I think this will be developed for another three to five years and then coast some.

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• acidqueen wrote: 95 points

  July 31, 2023 - My notes on this wine from 2019 have not changed much. Still stunningly good. Firm tannins still holding this down, but after an hour decant the black cherry, raspberry, lilac, menthol and earth emerge. This has developed a bit, perhaps, in the last four years, but not much. As good as it was when I first drank it in 2012, but less exuberantly fruity. Lots of time ahead here but excellent now.

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• HowardNZ Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 19, 2022 - Four pairs of wines at Mark's place (Wellington, NZ): Served double blind by Nick in a pair with the 2005 Marchesi di Grésy Gaiun. Ethereal, lifted aromatics, red berry and cherry fruit, dried herbs, spices and red rose florals. Perfumed. In the mouth, attractive red cherries and other dark red fruit, spices, cherry cola and menthol. Elegant and refined, seeming like a traditionally-made Barolo. Seamless, svelte tannins. Bright, vibrant acidity. A little below mid weight but long. On its optimal drinking plateau over the 2020s, I would think. 94+.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Grésy
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Martinenga Camp Gros
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco

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• In Cellars 142 (51%)
• Consumed 138 (49%)

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