This bottle was a bit better than the last. Leather, cocoa, mint, mulberry and Slivovitz aromas. Tangier, less bitter than the last bottle. Finish still lacks clarity and tends toward the vague, dirty, plummy side. Lacks the gentility, nuance, and subtlety desirable in a mature wine. No advantage to sitting on this wine at this juncture.
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Opaque ruby. Red fruit aromas evolving to tobacco, tea, wet granite, menthol. Muddied raisin, roasted plum, over ripe strawberries flavours, finishing alcoholic. Drink up, new style doesn't age as well.
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(Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric dėl Fiasc) Bricking medium dark red violet color; dried berry, fig, tar nose with a possible touch of TCA; tasty, youthful, dried berry, tar, tart black fruit palate; medium-plus finish 91+ points (seems subtly flawed compared to the much better bottle I had earlier this year; also pales next to the '96 version)
1/17/2024 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Roseberry nose; lean light licorice with smooth acidic long finish.
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1/8/2024 - Musinus wrote: 87 Points
This bottle was a bit better than the last. Leather, cocoa, mint, mulberry and Slivovitz aromas. Tangier, less bitter than the last bottle. Finish still lacks clarity and tends toward the vague, dirty, plummy side. Lacks the gentility, nuance, and subtlety desirable in a mature wine. No advantage to sitting on this wine at this juncture.
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11/29/2023 - paulst Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light nose; rugged body; textured; coarse licorice and later some raisin; after 2 hours opened with sweet tart finish.
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11/24/2023 - The Wine Monkeys wrote: 86 Points
Bit of a fruit bomb for our taste, lacking balance and depth.
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9/21/2023 - Musinus wrote: 85 Points
Opaque ruby. Red fruit aromas evolving to tobacco, tea, wet granite, menthol. Muddied raisin, roasted plum, over ripe strawberries flavours, finishing alcoholic. Drink up, new style doesn't age as well.
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