Winemaker dinner with Giuseppe Vaira (RPM Steak - Chicago, IL): Incredible concentration and power here with so much still rich, ripe and fresh fruit. Florals and spice are still quite fresh adding a youthful complexity to the wine. Fine tannins and structure are softening but still proportional the fruit. Upside from here.
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"Only for Sundays" (Chicago, IL): Clearly shows the power of the vintage here, with its plentiful ripe black fruit and large-scaled tannic structure. One of the most tannic wines today, this feels like it still has decades to go before it softens up, even though I do quite enjoy the fruit here. As a footnote, this bottle did seem to suffer from a little dustiness that I thought could have been TCA, but eventually didn't end up thinking it was.
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Great value for a wonderful, aged Barolo. Notes of spice, tobacco and blackberry, with excellent mouth feel with a medium, long finish. Only downside is lots of sediment. 91-92.
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5/21/2023 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Winemaker dinner with Giuseppe Vaira (RPM Steak - Chicago, IL): Incredible concentration and power here with so much still rich, ripe and fresh fruit. Florals and spice are still quite fresh adding a youthful complexity to the wine. Fine tannins and structure are softening but still proportional the fruit. Upside from here.
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5/21/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
"Only for Sundays" (Chicago, IL): Clearly shows the power of the vintage here, with its plentiful ripe black fruit and large-scaled tannic structure. One of the most tannic wines today, this feels like it still has decades to go before it softens up, even though I do quite enjoy the fruit here. As a footnote, this bottle did seem to suffer from a little dustiness that I thought could have been TCA, but eventually didn't end up thinking it was.
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2/23/2019 - Warren23 wrote: 91 Points
Great value for a wonderful, aged Barolo. Notes of spice, tobacco and blackberry, with excellent mouth feel with a medium, long finish. Only downside is lots of sediment. 91-92.
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2/5/2016 - cct wrote: flawed
2016 Festa del Barolo Gala Dinner
Sadly lightly corked, but underneath this was a very good wine. Broad shouldered and ripe but holding it together nicely. Too bad
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