2006 Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco
Community Tasting Note
BillBell73 Likes this wine:
93 Points
Monday, October 27, 2014 - Hazy soft red with some bricking. Surprisingly mature...I guess the modern style wines age much faster. The nose is beautiful and reminiscent of a traditional Barolo with 30 or 40 years of age, good fruit on the palate...dried cherries and strawberries, no noticeable oak, tannins very light and integrated. I have no idea if this wine will plateau here but it is very advanced compared to what I'm used to from the region. A very pretty wine right now.
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Comment posted by Arch57:
10/28/2014 5:03:00 AM - I usually hold my Barolo's for a while but your note makes me want to try this one! I have two bottles which is nice to sample one now and then hold the other for later. Ahh, the pleasure of aging wine.
Comment posted by BillBell73:
10/28/2014 7:44:00 AM - I was going to hold this another ten years but thank goodness I checked in. They don't macerate the grapes on the skins for very long, maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of the time that the tradionalists often do, so you don't have the heavy tannin extraction that makes a lot of Barolo unpalatable for me at least until it is twenty or thirty years old.