2016 Giulia Negri Barolo La Tartufaia

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  3/15/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Young BaBa 2014-2019 theme dinner at Duomo. Tasted blind. Drank in Conterno Sensory.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, bright ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of piercing bright red cherries, strawberries, raspberries. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14%), soft medium+ tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of lovely ripe bright red cherries, strawberries, raspberries, soft red plums. Long plush finish.
  Very good quality. Great aromatically pure red fruit nose. Soft sexy plush palate on a medium body. Surely drinks very pleasantly well now. I don't have much faith in the longevity of this beyond 5 years though.

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  9/28/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  30 hours later, from undecanted bottle, the thing was just darned perfect.
  Nose of fine herbs of the cakes kind, roses and density that shouted Nebbiolo.
  Palate of crunchy cake spices with grip, cherry, tars, citrus and good length.
  
  Open the bottle the day before, then decant as much off sediment as possible. Give 2 more hours. Then pair with your duck.
  
  Cleared out the last of the bottle and oh man, just delicious. The sediment is hardly visible. The color gorgeous.
  Excellent wine.

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  9/27/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  Upon initial decant smelled very natty.
  Had a lot of spots of sediment, not smoke, but small dots of stuff. Could only decant half the bottle before they showed up.
  Nose was very natty up front, then solidified into Nebbiolo of unique stature with typical fine cakes, flowers but something that was of the natural kind that I’ve never smelled before from Barolo.
  Dust, citrus, cherry also showed up.
  Delicious palate of richness with fine cake spices, tart cherry, length and stars on the finish. I fell in love with this after the second sip, but I didn’t take that sip until 2 hours of air.
  Cola, tobacco, and other hot hill herbs showed up. This was quality, and felt so holy in my belly.
  Dusty tannins and more of a natural style Barolo than I’m used to, but really love it.
  
  6 hours in, fresh pour from decanter, the nose had some funk, kinda shocked me. Never had a Barolo ever throw funk at me like that. It blew off fast, but wow, then after some swirls some volatile smells. Interesting. After a few minutes it evened out with freshness, citrus, spices, raspberries and palate of richness, spices, complexity that confounded my lexicon to where I could only think of spanking sparkles (don’t know exactly what that was, but it worked here.), (well, I guess, it spanked my palate, like it was a bad boy, but it finished with some feathers and small leathers of whips.) Indeed delicious! So much going on that it was a confounder.
  
  The half bottle that remained will rest until tomorrow. I’ll add notes as to how it turns out.
  
  For now, I strongly recommend to visit the site:
  https://www.giulianegri.com/en/tartufaia
  The images portrayed here from the highest point in Barolo Zone are amazing. Love live Barolo Girl and her philosophy of bringing real wine to us in California!

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  2/23/2023 - Martin_G wrote: 91 Points

  Great bottle. Do not rush it as some air did good to this - the very shy nose deepened and filled out considerably. Soft, velvety and fruity on palate. Better than i thought it would be. At peak, as far as I can tell, but likely to stay so for a while (a drag this cannot be found <40€).

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  2/8/2023 - Bjorn Kvande wrote: flawed

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