Community Tasting Notes 5

• CamWheeler wrote: 93 points

  September 4, 2019 - SLDS September 2019: Raspberry, redcurrant, swirling spices and liquorice on the nose. Great balance with layers of flavour and fine detail. Palate has excellent presence and finesse. Fine and stylish, superb.

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• Rebirth22 Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 28, 2017 - Decanted for an hour. Earthy notes and red fruit on the nose. Beautiful strawberry, mint and licorice, at the front with floral tones, followed by leather, tar and tobacco which ultimately give way to a lingering spicy pepper finish. Will stand up to the richest savory dishes. Drinking well now. Will it get better? Don't know, I'll probably keep 1 back and drink the rest this year.

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• HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  December 28, 2015 - Dinner with Ata Rangi and Escarpment winemakers: Silvia Altare gave us the 2005 and 2008 Cerrettas when we visited her winery in June. This dinner was a good opportunity for us to assess these wines, and their oak profile, more clinically, away from Silvia's engaging personality ... We pretty much popped and poured these wines, to give us the best opportunity to assess them before any 'Burtonian wall of tannins' descended ... and the 2005, at this time, was clearly the pick of the two ... An attractive nose of spicy dark cherries and blackberries, pretty primary. On palate, elegant and drinking quite beautifully. Flavours of sour cherries, tar and blackberries, with some dark earth and liquorice. Yes, quite modernist in style ... Sleek and seamless with fine grained tannins, but also quite vibrant. The oak or extraction not seeming to me overdone. However, there's a lot of matière, tannin and acid still to resolve here. For some reason it reminded me of a young Dugat-Py. I didn't take the remains of the bottle home but understand that it shut down by the next day. Hold for 3-5+ more years.

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• Collector1855 wrote: 95 points

  May 30, 2014 - Tasted at a merchant dinner with Silvia Altare. This one is from the Serralunga area. Medium garnet. Expressive nose of leather, coffee, flowers and mint, nice and complex. On the palate medium bodied, very elegant precise but with gripping tannins and mineralic, spicy finish. Not drying but nevertheless you have to be comfortable with the typical Nebbiolo tannins here. Eat with rich food and this wine will be a winner.

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• aekenback wrote: 87 points

  May 16, 2013 - Mindre mirrig än Arborina

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Elio Altare
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Vigna Bricco
• Vineyard Cerretta
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• In Cellars 118 (57%)
• Consumed 88 (43%)

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