1998 Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  10/27/2022 - MS86 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Clear, pale rust with heavy bricking.
  
  Powerful nose with freshly laid tar, strawberry, pot pourri, leather and earth.
  
  Palate is powerful, structured with firm tannin. Quite warm
  
  Flavours are strawberry with a sweet rose finish.
  
  Complex wine that will continue to mature and evolve over the next decade.

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  11/29/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Return to Piemonte!; 11/25/2021-12/4/2021 (Castello di Sinio, Alba, other various locations): Back to back with the 99 and again these were the first wines we’ve had this trip with any real age. More secondary in style and a lot more gravitas to them. The fruit is secondary (although still there). Bigger and a bit bolder. Visiting the winery so interesting to see what style was used for these and how that compares to the wine being made now. Certainly paired well with a truffle menu

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  9/17/2020 - AdVinoRosso Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pleasantly surprised as I thought the window of drinkability might have closed on this one but it did not disappoint.

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  4/7/2017 - canan wrote: 88 Points

  BYO - Michael (Michaels place): Black currant fruit. A modern style but also fresh and elegant.

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  4/15/2016 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points

  Moderately translucent pomegranate color. Brooding, rich and slightly oaky nose with aromas of ripe black cherries, some juicy plummy tones, a little bit of sweet toasty oak, a lifted hint of sweet, balsamic VA and a touch of savory wood. The wine is ripe, rich and moderately full-bodied on the palate with complex flavors of juicy black cherries, peppery oak spice, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of sweet, dark-toned oaky character, light dusty tones, a hint of tar and a touch of ripe raspberry. The wine is enjoyably high in acidity with quite ample, firm and grippy tannins. The finish is long, quite grippy and tannic with complex, acid-driven flavors of sour cherries, tart lingonberries, some toasty oak spice, a little bit of black raspberry, light developed tones of licorice and a hint of tar.
  
  A somewhat modern Barolo, but very balanced, harmonious and enjoyable for one. The wine seems to be going into the right direction, but there's still a lot of life left here at the age of 17½ years. Most likely the wine will continue to go up for many more years and most likely it won't be hitting its apogee at least within the next 10 years - at least it feels like the wine could use a lot more time to integrate those woodier tones better with the fruit. Overall a very good and pleasant vintage of Marcenasco with a great deal of future cellaring potential.

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