2014 Vietti Barolo Rocche di Castiglione

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  8/10/2023 - connorpksmith Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted for an hour before enjoying at Carusso's Grocery. This needs a longer 2-3 hour decant to really show its true class.. I'll start with the last sip was definitely the best. Very tight and wound up for the first hour. Aromas of dark crushed rose petals, wet forest floor, and black cherries. As the night went on, the palate began to unfurl layers of dusty purple, dark cherries, sweet spices, and a smooth silky level of tar. The is an amazing Barolo built for the long haul. I can't wait to watch this develop over the next few decades next to some of the more highly acclaimed vintages, such as the '13 or '16. 95-96

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  4/2/2023 - Nebbiolo75 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  100% Nebbiolo. This Castiglione Falletto Barolo opens up immediately but this beauty shows its true colors after a 2 hour decant. Pale ruby color. Intense aromas of cherries, rose petals, violets. On the palate, full bodied, intense, elegant, very long lingering finish. Magical Barolo, it doesn't get much better than that! Drink or hold. 14% ABV

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  6/29/2020 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  On the nose, I found black cherry and red raspberry fruit, licorice, violets, menthol, fresh herbs, and a hint of fresh citrus. On the palate, the wine opened with juicy dark red fruit, with a good amount of power but lip puckering acidity contributing freshness and a sense of lightness. As it built towards the finish, finely textured but youthful tannin emerged, and the flavor profile transitioned into a bit of a darker fruit expression, ending on black fruit, spices, and salty minerality.
  
  It's a brilliant wine. Compared to the '16 which I tasted yesterday, the fruit expression is a bit lighter, with some red fruit in the '14 mixing with the black cherry I found in both wines. The acidity level appears to be higher in the '14, or at least it sticks out more from the rest of the wine, and thus one could say it lacks a bit of the balance of the '16, where every aspect seems to be perfectly proportioned. It's a bit leaner on the palate as well, but not nearly to the degree of most '14 Barolo. In both wines there is a clear commonality in the vineyard characteristics but each also reflects the vintage characteristics.

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  10/5/2019 - farinas Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This is an exceptional Barolo. It has a huge bouquet of flowers, sweet spices and truffles. The body has intense and vibrant macerated red fruits with huge yet round polished tannins. This wine is for the long haul but if you must, and we did, can be drunk now and enjoyed plenty. Un grande lavoro!

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  2/2/2019 - cct wrote: 94 Points

  2014 Barolo at Festa dal Barolo (Del Posto, NYC): 2014 vintage tasting at 2019 Festa dal Barolo
  
  Great perfume. Roses, balsam, truffle, tar and violets. you could smell this all day. Fresh and eep with darker nebbiolo fruit. This drinks with the ease of mineral water and has a great purity to its fruit and finishes with fine tannins. It is deep and yet carries itself with a sense of ease and grace. Impressive, and this may sound weird, but it is almost too pure and clean for me, and I get less of an emotional response to it. Wonderful wine nonetheless. I could see people going ballistic over this and I would not blame them. It is beautiful.

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