2015 Colombera & Garella Lessona Pizzaguerra

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  7/27/2023 - MLipton wrote: flawed

  Slightly corked. There’s a very appealing Nebbiolo underneath the cork taint, which is all the more a shame.

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  12/31/2021 - Macman77 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Cherries, hip roses, a touch of mushroom in the nose
  Cherries, roses, good acidity, soft but present tannins with a balanced acidity.

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  2/13/2020 - forceberry wrote: 83 Points

  A blend of organically farmed Nebbiolo (95%) and Vespolina (5%). Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in concrete tanks. Macerated with the skins for 30 days. Aged for 2 years in used (2nd and 3rd use) oak tonneaux. 13% alcohol.
  
  Youthful and dark ruby color with surprisingly little translucency. Big, ripe and quite sweet-toned nose with aromas of juicy black cherries, some fragrant blackcurrant tones, a little bit of strawberry, light brambly notes blackberry and a mineral hint of stone dust. The wine is medium-bodied, fresh and very acid-driven on the palate with slightly closed flavors of tart lingonberries, crunchy redcurrants, some fresh blackcurrants, a little bit of stony minerality, a hint of sour cherry bitterness and a touch of earth. The wine is very balanced and structured with its noticeably high acidity and firm, textural medium tannins, but somehow the overall feel is somewhat dull and lacking vibrancy. The fruit is very pure here and the noticeably high acidity lends the wine some really nice freshness, but it still feels like it is lacking some precision. The finish is dry, moderately tannic and somewhat earthy with quite long flavors of crunchy cranberries, some tart lingonberries, a little bit of stony minerality, a hint of dried savory herbs and a touch of smoke.
  
  An enjoyably crunchy and acid-driven Alto Piemontese red, but somehow it never really manages to captivate me. There's some sort of dullness and lack of vibrancy to the fruit here, despite the fresh overall feel. It's quite impossible to put finger on it, since this wine is so similar to the vintage 2014 that was tasted alongside this, but while this was somewhat underwhelming and insipid, the 2014 vintage was just gorgeous. I really don't know what is/was going on here, but based on this experience, I'd either skip this vintage and concentrate on the surrounding ones or then I'd let the wine get enough age to get over this sulky period.

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  9/19/2019 - mattstolz11 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  good weeknight wine at this point but feels a little closed down right now. not incredibly generous at this point. good structure and smooth tannins. nice with food

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  8/23/2019 - UrbanGrill Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good expression of the nebbiolo grape. Delicious now but I suspect that another 3-5 years won't hurt.

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