2000 Podere Rocche dei Manzoni Barolo Vigna d'la Roul

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  6/17/2023 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fully mature Barolo. Pretty heavily bricked on decanting but 3 hours later it was less so and clearly had a darker ruby core. Nose is effusive with rich black earth, truffles, a little game meat, rose petals and some spice notes along with just a touch of VA/acetone. Palate has just a trifle tannin left and a mostly smooth, rich mouth feel. Finish is long and earthy. Near end of life in the case of this bottle. Enjoyable with some grilled, venison backstrap.

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  9/12/2021 - kingkanu wrote:

  Decanted off the copious sediment about 3 hours before drinking, and it’s still opening up. It’s got a deep red core with bricking eating a cm into the wine. The nose has plenty going on, still some cherry fruit while it’s developing tertiary aromas and flavours, a bit leathery, some opulent spice, it’s floral in quite an intense way, a bit of chocolate, some heat is showing from the 14.5%. There’s some medium grain tannins showing still, I suspect they will still be there when the fruit has faded but with food they are unobtrusive. It’s a bigger boned Barolo, best suited for the table. It’s hard to see this improving more although it’s not going to keel over either.

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  10/17/2020 - rbieber168@gmail.com Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lots of sentimate. Bricking and very feminine in taste. Nice older Barolo with old world taste I felt. Again near the end of its drinking window.

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  10/9/2020 - devraj Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Dark brick in color. Initial whiff of VA which then settles to reveal intense balsamic aromas over dried cherries, violets, tar and iron. A very layered palate shows sweet macerated dried fruits, superb savory notes of balsam and iron, fully resolved tannins and oak, medium acidity and a long perfumed finish. This is very good!

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  9/2/2020 - wine4ever wrote:

  Big change from our last bottle 21 months ago. This bottle was much further along - definitely mature. Brown-maroon in color, lots of leather, cedar, truffle, prune on the nose. Big wine but smooth, at first a little reminiscent of a port (but not sweet) but then spices, earth, coffee, iodine. Still has tannins. Great with Lasagna. Drink or continue to hold. Probably won't improve, but it will keep evolving for at least 5-10 years.

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