Community Tasting Note

PSPatrick wrote:

Monday, March 19, 2012 - Monday Bouteille at Restaurant Carlton in Zürich. We tasted the 1997 Tenuta Pianpolvere Barolo Bussia Soprano alongside the 1999 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d'Alba. The Pianpolvere still looked quite youthful. It offered floral and an intense chocolate aromas on the nose. On the palate the medium-bodied wine showed red cherry, leather, chocolate, coffee, tea and nutty flavours, with good grip and good length.

Compared with the 1999 Falletto di Serralunga d'Alba the Pianpolvere was a little fuller-bodied, with more noticeable tannins, seemed younger and longer-lived. Stylistically I clearly preferred the balanced, weightlessly elegant and intriguing Falletto, which also drank better on its own whereas the Pianpolvere shouted for food. As for my personal taste and particularly for drinking now I clearly prefer the 1999 Falletto; the Pianpolvere might, however, come around nicely in the long run.

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