2000 Giovanni Rosso Barolo Serralunga d'Alba

Community Tasting Notes (7) Median Score: 88 points

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  8/21/2020 - SurferDudeSF wrote: 79 Points

  Kept coming back to perfumed RAID insect repellant as a flavor. Tried it with braised short rib over a polenta with home made tomato sauce. It was tight and didn’t open up until it was just flat. There were a couple of sips that showed brilliance of chocolate and leathery fruit but was hoping for more.

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  1/27/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points

  Giovanni Rosso Tasting (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): Tasting, brief note. Forward and easy to enjoy now, showing good combination of earth, red fruit and spice. Moderate intensity and length, best over the next few years.

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  1/14/2012 - Pknut wrote:

  Opens up pretty soon to an array of flavors, including dark cherry fruit, forest floor, cola, balsamico and a touch of menthol that soon dissipates. The black cherry fruit turns to strawberry notes with some air. Smooth mouthfeel, tannins seem soft. Seems like this Barolo is heading into secondary territory. The oak and cedar notes that I detected in this wine, per my note of 10/08, have been absorbed. However, while the palate delivers good flavor and interest, it's not very deep, which is exactly what I wrote back in 10/08. Overall, a good Barolo experience for a cold winter night, a stick-to-your-ribs kind of wine, but not a profound or complex wine. Solid B/B+.
  UPDATE: This firmed up considerably after 24 hours of air, showing better concentration and the tannins are firmer and provide nice grip to the dark cherry fruit.

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  6/17/2010 - kahuna75 wrote: 88 Points

  interesting bottle a little on the light side smooth wine some chery cough syrup on the nose followed with a touch of sour cherry-cedar - easy drinking wine touch of mushroom

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  10/12/2008 - Pknut wrote:

  On the first night, this wine shows cedar on the nose, and cherry and light menthol on the palate, but the wine seem to be searching for itself. At one point, I get cherry menthol, then the cedar peeks out, then it receeds, then the cherry takes on a surprising cough-syrup taste (but without the thickness and medicinal quality of actual cough syrup). On the second night, the wine finds itself and gains the precision in lacked on the first night. The cherry fruit is more defined, along with forest floor. At no point do I ever really think about tannin, but while the wine is not as structured as, say, some of the '99 or '01 Baroli that I've been drinking, neither is this wine all that deep. The flavors are at the surface only. By comparison, the '01 Serralunga Barolo from Giovanni Rosso has richer, deeper fruit, and the '01 Ceretta Barolo from Rosso that I had on the Disney Cruise six weeks ago (see CT note) is much firmer and darker.

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