This was good, not great; the nose was lovely and was pretty open from the start; classic nebbiolo with red fruit, mint, orange peel, tar, leather, tobacco, and floral notes. The palate started out a bit thin, but did gain weight with air and improved over the 2 hours of consumption. I love the nose, I wish the palate had a bit more depth and intensity though it may develop some more given the improvement with air.
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3 hour decant was necessary. Although very aromatic upon opening, the palette was super tight and unforgiving. But when it opened up it was excellent, classic Barolo in most every way. Wish I had more!
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3/10/2024 - jnewman77 wrote:
This was good, not great; the nose was lovely and was pretty open from the start; classic nebbiolo with red fruit, mint, orange peel, tar, leather, tobacco, and floral notes. The palate started out a bit thin, but did gain weight with air and improved over the 2 hours of consumption. I love the nose, I wish the palate had a bit more depth and intensity though it may develop some more given the improvement with air.
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12/24/2023 - A6Rover Likes this wine: 94 Points
3 hour decant was necessary. Although very aromatic upon opening, the palette was super tight and unforgiving. But when it opened up it was excellent, classic Barolo in most every way. Wish I had more!
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11/25/2023 - JRavn Likes this wine: 88 Points
I assume it will improvie with considerable age
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2/3/2023 - D!n@sh Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened a magnum today and it was super tight initially. Didn’t have the time to decant it ahead of the dinner.
The wine opened up considerably over the next 90 mins.
Translucent, red cherry.
Overall like it. Though would wait for 5+ years and even then decant it for 2+ hours
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1/28/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
La Festa del Barolo (Los Angeles) Grand Tasting (Marino Restaurant, Los Angeles): Fairly closed. Light and tannic, but some citrus and spice on the finish. Not the time to be drinking this.
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