2016 Vietti Barolo Castiglione

Community Tasting Notes (98) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  1/9/2024 - Motz wrote: 96 Points

  Drank over two days.
  
  Bright, lively, and wondrously edgy...all of which indicate a long maturation curve, no less than fifteen years, likely twenty. I have tasted this alongside the same vintage PdB Normale, which delivers high QPR and boasts similar professional wine marketer scores, but cannot match it, in any measurable category. In this context, that wine's current 91.8 CT score, compared to the present wine's 92.2 CT score, does not reflect the significant quality difference between the two.
  
  Right now, and for the next several years, opening bottles roughly equates to waste, for all but the most intrepid, non-tanninphobes. Ridiculous QPR!

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  12/30/2023 - asparagus Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was a fun wine. Very good, red fruited and so easy to drink after a 2 hr slow ox. Fine tannins and not a brute (like how young Nebb can be)

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  11/6/2023 - SteelyMon Likes this wine: 92 Points

  3 hr decant - then got darker and fuller in the glass by hr 5. Cork perfect - zero sediment. Very nice with pre-Thanksgiving dinner - turkey and mushroom gravy - 92+

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  10/27/2023 - Dukes88 wrote: 89 Points

  Quite light and thin. Floral nose, red cherry, herbs.
  
  In my opinion this is not ready at all or a disappointment.
  
  Drank over 2 days
  Day 1: coravin 1 glass and I did let it sit for 2 hours
  Day 2: open the bottle for 4 hours, still pretty closed and decanted for another 3 with some periodic tasting.

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  10/25/2023 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Light red, burg color but nose v Piedmont, served blind, lovely perfumed nose of cherries, roses, decanted 2 hours, still tannic, enjoyable, will get better with age
  93+

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