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Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 92.8 points

  • A very good bottle. Decanted and really opened up with air. Still youthful. No rush if you care to hold, but really good now.

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  • Really needs a minimum of a couple of hours of breathing. My notes from 2020 are perfectly applicable to this bottle as well. A great experience.

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  • PnP at a steakhouse... muted upon open but gained complexity and color with an hour of air. We concluded the wine firmed up a bit and the tannins became more apparent after an hour and a half. Could be the vintage and possibly picked early because of the heat but just guessing here. Very elegant for a 2000 Barolo with beautiful fruit and all the right stuff in place. Drink or hold

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  • Incredible wine. Left to ox in the bottle for a couple of hours. Burnished red color with brown shades.
    Particular consistency, almost dense in the mouth.
    Incredible nose and mouth. Black fruit and blackberries, licorice, a particular spicy background, after a couple of glasses a hint of mint also appeared. Tannin still present and perfectly balanced with the acid notes. Intense and incredibly prolonged finish. Unfortunate to have had only one bottle available.

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  • This is a killer barolo. This is the reason one has a cellar! To buy something 15 years ago, that was bottled twenty years ago and put it down and let it work its magic. The nose is huge but subtle. Subtle because the elements are intertwined and balanced consisting of a bit of tar, significant floral notes, an earthy tone, red meat, and a mineral background. The palate is rounded and rich but with an excitement on the tongue that almost feels like it has a bit of sparkle to it. It is meaty, minerally, leathery, with a side hit of blueberry. Early in the taste is a hint of tannic backbone that just grows as the seconds tick by and becomes dominant as the other flavors slide away. This wine has a lot of legs, with no sense of time passing --- so will likely be as fabulous 20 more years from now. But drinking it now is a great thing as well.

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    Checking in on Piedmont’s 2000 Vintage (Jun 2011), (See more on Vinous...)

    (Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia) Login and sign up and see review text.

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    Giacomo Conterno Vertical Tasting (Jul 2005), (See more on Vinous...)

    (Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia) Login and sign up and see review text.
  • By Stephen Tanzer
    November/December 2002, IWC Issue #105, (See more on Vinous...)

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Rockss and Fruit

  • By Lyle Fass
    5/4/2005, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia) Lovely nose of mineral, cherry, tar & hot rocks. Also an exotic hint of BBQ sauce after some coaxing. Soft and elegant on the palate with gorgeously defined ripe fruit and silky tannins. This was wide open and a great drink. Not classic Barolo but something to drink while you wait for your other Cascina Francia's to mature.

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