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2009 L'Arco Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
5/1/2020 - verset-hound Likes this wine: 94 Points
Definitely the best Amarone I've had to date... downright formidable. I've seen favorable ratings on one 10 years senior to this, but one does as best as one can with sourcing ready-to-drink wines from liquor stores in quarantine. Immense nose of dried figs, black fruit, and leather. Long on the palate with some raisin quality, but enough jam to hold it together. I found it drier and more tannic than newer Sartori and Brigaldara ones I've tried.
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2005 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru La Dominode
4/30/2020 - verset-hound Likes this wine: 90 Points
Another high QPR Cote de Beaune 1er cru... powerful cherry and musky forest floor on the nose with a long red fruit palate, just a hint of age funk.
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1995 Gaja Barbaresco Sorì Tildìn
4/24/2020 - verset-hound wrote: 82 Points
This one was very frustrating, I took a break from my Barolo tasting to try this esteemed Barbaresco. The extensive stickering and metallic marker #'s (auction?, I bought from Vinfolio) should have been something of a provenance tell. The classic garnet fade in the glass was cloudy, I later realized, due to very fine-grained sediment throughout. the nose was reasonably strong with cherry, tobacco and leather. On the palate the fruit was in some state of dissolution and I soon suspected that the mid-palate tannic bite was simply a byproduct of the suspended sediment. This theory proved correct when I attempted to strain half a glass through a coffee filter and the result was remarkably listless. Thankfully there was not an extensive sense of oxidation. So I carried on with decanting over the next 3 hours. We seemed to be treading a fine line between dissolution and closed. It did improve with time but not a great showing from this Gaja, given the last one I had (2015 Barbaresco) remained completely closed for two days.
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