1986 Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Grésy Barbaresco Martinenga Gaiun

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 94 points

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  8/4/2019 - MikeJK Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Medium(-) garnet cloudy with fine sediment despite standing for weeks. I suspect the sediment was stirred in the process of dealing with the crumbing cork. Wine was intact but cork screw is not recommended on this 33 year old bottle.
  
  Nose was initially very dusty and muddled... I feared it was over the hill; however 3 hours in decanter really paid off. Nose is classic tar and light rose perfume with sweet tobacco. I was particularly impressed by the palate which still presented fresh sour cherry fruit and lovely acid. Body filled out with m(+) deliciously fine tannin after 3.5h. I think this is at a peak but with years of plateau remaining.

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  4/4/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Faded crimson with a bricking edge. Ethereal rose aromas mixed in with a pruny/porty element. Some remaining fruit. Gentle but washed out.

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  1/25/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Marchesi di Gresy Barbaresco Martinenga: 1978 to 2007 (Acquerello, San Francisco): Medium ruby. Offputting combination of underripe stalkiness and an intense rose florality. Spicy, again an impression of sweeter fruit, but frankly oaky and not enough body to support this treatment. Truncated, very short finish. Just weird and unenjoyable.

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