Community Tasting Note

Pknut wrote:

Sunday, October 12, 2008 - On the first night, this wine shows cedar on the nose, and cherry and light menthol on the palate, but the wine seem to be searching for itself. At one point, I get cherry menthol, then the cedar peeks out, then it receeds, then the cherry takes on a surprising cough-syrup taste (but without the thickness and medicinal quality of actual cough syrup). On the second night, the wine finds itself and gains the precision in lacked on the first night. The cherry fruit is more defined, along with forest floor. At no point do I ever really think about tannin, but while the wine is not as structured as, say, some of the '99 or '01 Baroli that I've been drinking, neither is this wine all that deep. The flavors are at the surface only. By comparison, the '01 Serralunga Barolo from Giovanni Rosso has richer, deeper fruit, and the '01 Ceretta Barolo from Rosso that I had on the Disney Cruise six weeks ago (see CT note) is much firmer and darker.

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