2007 Massolino Barolo Parussi

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  7/2/2023 - lightning wrote: 92 Points

  An attractive and balanced Barolo with typicity of what I'd imagine for Castiglione Falletto. A sultry nose of red and blue fruits, cinnamon and baking spices; light to medium-bodied, silky entry and midpalate before the crescendo of midbodied al dente tannins emerge, supple and balanced, reasonable length. Alluring texture. This has been open for 4-5 hours in the decanter, but from memory this is less forbidding in structure to other vintages of the Barolo Classico that I've tried, which I believe are comprised mainly of Serralunga fruit.

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  1/23/2023 - Richard123 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Drinks like a good $40 barolo...

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  11/9/2021 - anderegg wrote: flawed

  Oxidized.

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  5/8/2021 - hrazdiiv Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Was keen on trying this and came away just a bit underwhelmed. Color is very light out of the bottle - even taking into consideration varietal and bottle age. But no orange at the rim, so perhaps just suggesting that skin contact was very limited, not a bad thing at all. We decanted for about 30 minutes; initial nose was a bit hard to coax out: some beautiful rose petals, leather, dried cherry lurking, but very subtle. All the while a slight amount of heat on the nose. After about another hour, some hints of secondary elements coming in, a bit of earthiness and fresh cedar. Tannins very strong throughout. I kept waiting for this to open up but it did so only in extremely small increments (took us ~ 3 hours to drink). I don't know: renown producer that I love but the wine was just a bit too one-dimensional for me; the fruit was just not there to round out the savory elements and tannin. On the other hand, it kept getting better (again, very gradually). It is perhaps in a "closed down" phase at this point. Apparently aged in barrels (not large "botti" that age the other crus) but I didn't get any softening here. Massolino is fantastic so willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that this will get better. In any case, this is for Barolo fans only - don't serve this at a party and expect it to be a crowdpleaser, too subtle at least at this point.

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  12/18/2020 - Richard123 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drinking really well... No decant, PNP

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