1964 Marcarini Barolo Brunate

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 94.9 points

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  5/5/2024 - fclarity wrote: 94 Points

  This is not a producer that is highly regarded or particularly expensive. It may be because the wines are made in a lighter, more accessible style. I believe this view underestimates them. The wines age extremely well, they are well balance, and have good complexity after 40 years or so.
  
  This wine had a light red center and light orange rims. The medium intensity nose was attractive with sandalwood, dried out orange zest, roses, and soil.
  
  In the mouth, this wine had nice rounded edges but had enough T&A to be formidable and stand up to food. It had excellent length and good spice to its flavors.
  
  This is a lovely wine that will easliy stay at this level for another 15+ years. Do not hesitate to give it 4 hours in the decanter before you start drinking it!

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  1/11/2024 - cct wrote: 93 Points

  Double decanted in the AM and drunk over several hours that night. Bottle upright for weeks ahead of time.
  
  A fully tertiary nose, but sitting quietly there is a lot going on: dried rose petal, decaying leaves, red fruits, cured meat, and delicate spice. Light to midweighted for nebbiolo and fading gracefully. It's still lifted with a sense tension and poise that the Marcarini's of this era seem to have. Savory and spice more than fruit driven on the palate with a complex blend of autumnal notes, red fruits, pot pourri, and spice. This would be completely lost in a large tasting, but an argument to drink wines like this in the right setting. Over time this morphs, loses some here only to gain something else. There is nuance and a sense fleeting change, intensity yet it's only feather weighted at times, almost fragile. Beautiful and with mystery. Not wine of everyone, but this was both intellectually appealing and pleasurable to the senses. Watching the last sunset of a great vacation. Lovely

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  9/24/2022 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Leather and licorice with raisin; smooth and sweet; long.

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  6/10/2022 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Always exciting to taste aged Barolo, opened to celebrate a friend’s birthday, cork in good shape, slow oxed for 1 hour, orange color, upon opening fantastic nose, leather, sour cherries, cranberries, earth, nose faded after 3 hours, cashmere in the mouth, sweetish, still has acidity to go at least 3 more years, a meditative Zen wine
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  9/8/2021 - DaleW wrote:

  his had been standing up in area that flooded, decanted about 2 hours before serving, best was last glass during cleanup. Light cranberry and cherry, orange zest, tar. Complex and long. A-

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