Community Tasting Note

Motz wrote:

Thursday, May 27, 2021 - Tasted over two days, alongside a 2012 Produttori del Barbaresco.

This Barolo offered a prettiness of perfume and textures that the Barbaresco, made from declassified 'Cru' fruit this vintage, could not match. Indeed!...what an incredible bouquet...in a word...GORGEOUS! All things raspberry (fresh berries, jams, candies, teas, potpourri), in harmonious interplay with strawberry, rhubarb, pomegranate, and acerola, enhanced by orange marmalade, candied orange peel, orange blossom honey, kumquat, and candied lemon peel...with rose petal, hibiscus tea, rose hip, menthol, and evergreen forest top notes. In another...er...two words: KNEE-WEAKENING!!!

The bouquet's elements also show on the palate...in thunderous waves of esctacial rapture. (If this descriptor seems over-the-top...so be it.) Now to the inflection-changing textures: The attack puts the mind to Chambolle-Musigny while the middle and back evoke Corton. High acid and ethereally powdery tannin frame the wine with unpretentious grandiosity. The finish has no, nor understands the meaning of, quit.

Perfect oak treatment. Tremendous purity and harmony throughout. Incredible now, even better in time...and holding onto bottles will prove a challenging endeavor, no doubt. A top flight Barolo by any measure...including price.

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