2009 Chionetti Dogliani Briccolero

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  10/27/2021 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 90 Points

  Pop and poured. This is lovely right now, and drinking better than the bottle I had last year (which I did not note). This guy offers nice aroma of a mash of blackberries and plums, pleasing soil, clove, and that lovely impression of Piedmont earth. The texture on the palate is very very lovely for a Dolcetto. Quite smooth and caressing. If you hold it in the mouth the tannins do still build intensely. It's more enjoyable with just a quick dance across the palate, where it shows more of the clove hints from the nose and nice bits of fruit and wet earth. The finish dials up with a bit of spice, dominated by its soil notes, and some of those darker completed fruits and pleasing old wet leaves on a fall day (not yet decaying). The tannins are still quite drying after all these years, but I think the fruit and other elements are lovely, so now would be the time to drink it before the flavors die off, leaving just a puckeringly dry wine with no flavor. These tannins will last decades more. Glad I let this age 10 years.

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  11/1/2018 - CJM wrote: 85 Points

  Clear deep garnet with very slight rim browning. Brandy, ball plum, braised fennel. Low acids, low tannins. Leather. Short balanced finish. Bottle at Del Posto.

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  9/16/2016 - diggydan wrote: 85 Points

  Dark chocolate and vegetal flavors. Big and alcoholic

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  9/13/2016 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 89 Points

  My first bottle tasted several years ago I questioned this wine. Maybe a defective bottle. Since then, every bottle has been very nice. I would definitely buy this again.

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  8/24/2016 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Another nice bottle of this stuff. Good producer.

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