Community Tasting Note

acyso wrote:

Friday, February 15, 2019 - Piedmont; 2/11/2019-2/15/2019 (Alba, Italy): At Barolofriends. Slightly worrying and advanced brownish colour, but the staff said that it was consistent with a bottle two days prior (consistently flawed?). At a higher-end restaurant, and if this bottle had cost more, I think I may have raised a bit more of a fuss, but in any case, we accepted it. Certainly a bit advanced, with some balsamic and very mild soy notes. Doesn't show much of the stern, black-fruited character of the vintage at all, and if I had had this blind, I probably would have gone to something like 1989 or 1985. The fruit did seem to pick up with more air, and as this got more air, it did seem to improve nicely. However, this isn't up to my expectations, but I'm not sure if it was due to this being an off bottle. It seems strange, seeing as how this bottle has (hopefully) travelled only 6 km or so.

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