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Friday, December 4, 2020 - Small taste from a dear friend.

Light red to orange in colour.

Very young nose, immediately screams Nebbiolo.

So elegant on entry I though 16 Barbaresco.

Classic rose and candied violet nose leaps from the glass. Go a bit deeper and the darker spice (anise) and smoke and tar come through.

Crunchy raspberry, just like adult cordial,pulls you in to a playful space for a moment through the middle before the razor fine and fresh tannins get their claws in. A wine of light and shade here. Good cop up front. Bad cop from the middle.

Gritty and sweet spice (cinnamon sugar) plays in the back third with tannins to great effect.

So much tannin for a light bodied wine. They are in balance, and the slippery Serrano puppy fat provides all the savoury help the wine needs to leave you very satisfied and in awe.

This is an excellent to exceptional example of Nebbiolo. It’s a very pure example- so clean and bereft of oak or artifice- that the smells and details speak with a very clear voice in a wine that is so very fine and light bodied.

I have a couple of bottles of these. It’s fantastic now, but it’s so very young and those tannins will scare the pants off anyone not used to the style. I’ll aim to drink one in 5 years and then one in 10 years.

96. Thank you Duck.

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