1996 Giuseppe E Figlio Mascarello Barolo Monprivato

Community Tasting Notes (63) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  11/21/2023 - salil wrote: 97 Points

  Spectacular wine. Beautiful aromatics - so perfumed and red fruited with an array of other floral and lightly herbal/other savoury notes coming together into a fragrance that's hard to move away from. Shows equally well on the palate where there's remarkable clarity and finesse to the fruit, and a silky texture with very fine-grained tannin.

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  11/21/2023 - kenv Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Dinner at Salil's: [Decanted about 3pm for 2 hours. Cork broke. Should have used the Durand.] Smells good! Around 7:30pm: Huge red berry nose. In the mouth, loads of red and black fruit. Still young, but starting to show some earth and forest. Long and complex. A winner with a long life ahead.

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  2/4/2023 - kenv Likes this wine: 96 Points

  NK Monprivato Vertical (Chez Goldberg, Greenwich Village, NYC): [Double-decanted about noon.] Big bouquet of black fruit, tar, and roses. Still, a huge, young wine, with many years ahead. Seems younger than the last time I had it. A wow wine with a great future. 95-97

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  2/4/2023 - cct wrote: 96 Points

  Double decanted in the AM and drunk over several hours at dinner.
  
  Still tight at the beginning of dinner. Tar, iron, Ricola lozenges, and darker nebbiolo fruit. Structured and firm but eventually opening up into an impressive scaled classically proportioned wine. Great tension, detail and balance with a limestone minerality to it. A terrific youthful wine. I will hold my remaining bottles for another 5-10 years. Outstainding now and then some, but more is to come. 96

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  11/28/2022 - Ericsson Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Bouteille somptueuse, ouverte 2 heures avant puis dégustée durant les 3 suivantes.
  Robe grenat moyen avec quelques nuances brique sur les bords.
  Le nez est formidable avec ses notes de roses séchées, de goudron, de terre humide puis de cerises.
  En bouche, l'attaque est vive, le vin se déploie avec puissance, la complexité est là comme les tanins d'ailleurs. La finale est longue et profonde, gage que le vin devrait encore bien se conserver, mais cette bouteille était certainement à maturité.
  Accompagnait à merveille les spaghetti à la bolognaise "maison"!

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