1974 Oddero Barolo Brunate

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 92 points

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  5/7/2020 - GrapeScott wrote: 92 Points

  First CT note on this wine. Seems to be a bit of an oddity because from what I've read, Oddero only started regularly bottling a separate Brunate around 2005. However, I picked these up recently at auction in a mixed lot of both normale and Brunate and there are clearly different labels for the two wines. The normale has "Barolo" written in horizontal print on the label while the Brunate has "Barolo" in diagonal print with a small designation of "Vigneto Brunate" in the lower lefthand side of the label. This particular lot was supposed to be 9 normale and 1 Brunate, but ended up being the converse, so lucky me. Decided to Vinturi a glass tonight in commemoration of a zoom meeting with my college crew of fellow '74s. This bottle had the lowest fill of the lot, but still excellent at ~2.5cm. Pours a tawny ruby with really no signs of bricking. Not giving much on the nose, with tobacco, bay leaf and violets. Not a ton of fruit and still showing surprising firm tannins, but drinking extraordinarily well right now. Cranberry, cigar leaf, and herbal notes, with a long sour cherry finish. This is the oldest Nebbiolo based wine I've tried by about 20 years, but quite honestly, blind I would have guessed it to be half its age. Stunningly youthful, and seems to be in no danger of decline as it was still improving at the last sip.

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