1996 Pertinace (Cantina Vignaioli) Barbaresco Vigneto Castellizzano

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  1/2/2024 - DaleW wrote:

  Tannins resolved, good acids, black cherry and dried cherry with orange zest and a little tobacco. Fully mature, pleasant Nebbiolo. B

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  11/11/2022 - bobsabayesian Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nose retains a little dried fruit and roses, but is well developed with notes of tobacco, cooked meat, and leather.

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  7/31/2021 - cavedivr Likes this wine: 91 Points

  At peak. Acids are high, fruit in decline. Nice, but drink up.

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  12/25/2020 - Gregory Dal Piaz wrote: 91 Points

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  hint of roasted orange. Tight and rough upon opening with golden raspberry wild cherry and orange peel flavors lean taut acid driven with a hint of fresh mushroom and old wood on the finish. Tannins are almost chewy. Structurally very youthful with flavors that reflect a wine on its plateau. Should be fine with 8 hours of air. Packed with tart sour cherry fruit. Tannin meld well lending this a smooth if not silky mouthfeel. Nose gains tar while some chalk shows up on the palate. It’s a lovely wine not great but complete and firmly in early maturity with some iron mushroom soup the palate and leather accents through the subtle yet long finish.

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  7/7/2017 - DaleW wrote:

  This is an early maturing Nebbiolo (most 96s I plan on not touching for a while) but hard to figure out treatment. I took a chance on a decant about 3 hours before serving. Smelled good on decant, then seemed to shut down aromatically, but by dinner was back in business. Nice tannin/acid balance, dried cherries, rose petals, tar. Medium bodied, ready to go. B+

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