1971 E. Pira & Figli (Chiara Boschis) Barolo

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 93 points

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  9/5/2023 - BHP1994 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was a 50th Birthday bottle gift from friends. Shared amongst 8 of us at a special dinner and served alongside a fresh truffle pasta course. Very special if you enjoy older vintages. Wonderfully complex and rich. Leather, tobacco, and herbs. Some floral as well. Very good.

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  2/22/2021 - sharonandroland Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pure and incredibly fresh. Very ethereal.

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  1/21/2017 - galenico Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Ricorda la finezza eterea e floreale dei vecchi Boca di Cerri, fresco, minerale, incredibilmente scattante e profumato. Un sussurro commuovente.

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  11/23/2015 - vindictive wrote:

  Another of the Luigi Pira bottlings and excellent again. Decanted about 7 hours prior to drinking, this needs air, but it delivers. Strong barnyard nose gives way to earth, goudron, flowers, musty air, violets etc.. Still vigorous with years to go. It was interesting to see how about 2/3 of the diners, tasting 4 old baroli, kept going back to this wine for that old Piemonte experience with truffles while the remaining 1/3 preferred a 1966 Luigi Calissano Barolo, a wine that really didn't taste that much like a Barolo to me. Could be that some poor wretched souls might not really like old style Barolo. Well, McDonalds always has a line..

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  11/20/2010 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  The cork crumbled a little but was in reasonable nick as it was drawn from the bottle. The initial smell was of bitter chocolate and sweet cedar. The wine breathed up marvellously and emitted all sorts of ethereal smells including porcini, truffle, dried figs, roses, curry leaf, raisins and earth. In the mouth it was sweet and vinous with outstanding freshness and excellent acidity. A near perfect bottle of wine.

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