2014 Azienda Giribaldi Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  7/1/2021 - robseconti@aol.com Likes this wine: 89 Points

  The typical barbaresco nose of forest floor and saddle leather with a hint of rose petals and toasted oak. Medium body, medium color. Initial hints of orange peel which moves quickly to black cherry, dusty mocha and a little vanilla. Very nice wine which could definitely benefit from 2-4 years of additional cellaring. At $70 on the wine list at Magna in Flushing Queens a relative bargain (for a restaurant wine list!!) paired with a first course of carbonara (excellent!) and a pork chop secondi.

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  4/25/2020 - yojimbo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Loved this wine. Brown-orange color. Complex.

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  12/2/2019 - R2-D2 wrote: 88 Points

  WSET 3 Workshop with Michael H; 12/1/2019-12/2/2019 (Temecula, CA): Medium garnet; Medium- intensity, developing aromas of red fruit (cherry, cranberry, raspberry), herbal (tea, lavender, medicinal), floral (potpourri, rose), secondary oak (cedar, smoke, coffee), and tertiary bottle age (leather, leaves, tobacco, savoury meat, forest floor, earth). Dry, high acid, high tannin, high alcohol, med body, med+ intensity, med+ finish. Flavors of secondary oak (toast, cedar, smoke, bitter chocolate, burned coffee, cola, cloves, espresso), red fruit (cherry, cranberry), pungent spice (cola, liquorice, pepper), herbal (fennel, tea, lavender), floral (potpourri, rose), and tertiary bottle age (leather, forest floor, wet leaves, dried tobacco). This is a very good wine; Drink now, but has potential for ageing.
  
  Like most young nebbiolo I have had, this is dominated by rustic, dry, oakey tannins. Those do relent after two days of being opened but the wine doesn't really gain anything more. This could really use some time.

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