2010 Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabajà

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  9/20/2023 - Motz wrote: 93 Points

  Drank over an evening. Moderate bricking.
  
  Typical and compelling at all phases. The wine shows considerable secondary notes, on the bouquet and palate. At once delicate and powerful. The middle to back transition and the finish feature appealing range and nuance.
  
  Still quite tannic. Recommend holding bottles for three to five years. Interesting, satisfying. Improvement seems possible.

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  4/30/2023 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What a fascinating wine. While at the beginning of its life span, it was super perfumed, showing sweet red berries, a lot of sex appeal (for lack of a better word) it has now become a little more tamed, austere, but also very classic. There is still plenty of red berries, some mint, flowery notes, but there is also Rabajà minerality coming through with some notes of graphite/tar, and some tobacco. Overall a little bit darker than it used to be. Medium bodied, with medium tannin that has melted away and some nice medium-high acidity adding freshness. Good length. A lovely wine.

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  9/1/2022 - shellylowen Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Silky plum and cherry and long finish

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  7/22/2022 - up4wine wrote:

  This bottle seemed to be a bit oxidized. So, maybe a flawed bottle, and I will give no rating.

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  6/9/2022 - Bonesetter wrote: 91 Points

  Classic barbaresco. Improved with breathing, as one would expect.

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