2005 Travaglini Gattinara Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  8/6/2022 - jondrinkswine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful, straightforward, well-balanced Nebbiolo offering a lot of typicity. The color is a gorgeous, bright blood orange. Tar and roses waft out of the glass, and the juicy, red-fruited palate is nicely accentuated by orange peel, licorice, black tea and spice. Tannins are smooth and well integrated finishing with a pleasant grip. Elevated acidity leaves the back of the jaw a bit taut, making this a perfect food wine. Nicely mature today, but has the structure for further aging. While it doesn’t offer the depth of a top-end Barolo, that’s not why you open Gattinara, and this wine doesn’t disappoint.

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  5/14/2021 - MBerzell Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This was a surprise to me! Brick colour, almost brown, and more opaque than I expect a nebbiolo to be. On the nose there was chocolate, violets and ripe cherries. On the palate it was just stunning, fresh acidity still, firm tannins and just lovely fruit, everything so well balanced.

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  2/13/2021 - Itamar wrote: 95 Points

  Well aged Nebbiolo. Needed ~4 hours of oxygen before it was as amazing as it was

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  11/8/2019 - WineKnurd Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted for about an hour before serving, at which point it was just starting to open up. Notes of deep black cherry and candied vanilla, licorice more than anise, and some herbal aged notes. Developed more spice and earth in the glass- black tea, anise, and forest floor, so I might suggest a 2 hr decant to anyone else looking to pop a bottle soon, as the extra time allows for a greater depth and intensity on both the nose and palate.
  
  The palate still carries a bit of sour acidity and there was the slightest bit of a hollow spot right before the mid-palate, but more exposure to air took care of that, and overall really comes together in a classic Travaglini style with lower tannin, lighter body, and some development with age. The palate is still fairly tannic with a sweet woody note, retro-nasally aromatic like cedar or fir. Black cherries, earth and soil, spicy anise with a very silk transition across the palate.
  
  Really been into a lot of aged Gattinara now, and with Travaglini I feel as though their Riserva are better built for 10+ years in the cellar over the normale bottlings (6-8 years for their sweet spot IMO). I am liking this better than the 2007 Travaglini Riserva and about as much as I enjoyed the 2006 Vallana; another solid A (95) for Da 'Knurd.

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  1/29/2017 - 422dbowlsby Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This wine has hit its stride; big improvement over prior bottles. Silky smooth tanins with ripe red fruits, hints of leather and tobacco, medium finish. Delicious.

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