1999 Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabajà

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  3/21/2021 - Easter Everywhere Likes this wine:

  In a great spot. No rush either

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  1/17/2021 - Bob H wrote:

  I see from my previous notes that this wine has been inconsistent in the past; thankfully, none of the prune notes I have seen in a couple bottles. This has a medicinal tone to the red fruit, almost like a Luden’s cherry cough drop. The nose has some red fruit, tar and funk. Not bad at all.

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  9/3/2020 - Bob H wrote:

  This is a little fresher/livelier on the nose than my last bottle a month ago, which had a distracting prune note. Fully mature at this point, if you still have this in your cellar you should check in on a bottle. Nicely expansive on the palate, but given the showing of my previous two bottles, there is also some bottle variation at play here. That said, no complaints with what is in my glass this afternoon.

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  8/6/2020 - Bob H wrote:

  As I commented on in my last note in 2018, there is a pruney note on the nose that really takes away from the overall wine. Tastes fine on the palate, but it is hard to get by that nose.

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  9/13/2019 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A nearly identical performance from the last bottle. I feel like this wine was highly underrated, and although I'm sad this is my last bottle, I enjoyed them all thoroughly,
  
  What a gorgeous bouquet on the '99 Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabaja, displaying an earthy profile with masses of tobacco up front followed by moist dark soil, tar, dried roses, a mix of savory herbs and hints of black cherry. On the palate, I found soft medium-weight textures, gaining richness the longer it sat in the glass, with balsamic tones, dried red fruits, iron-born minerals, balanced acids and wonderfully resolved tannins. Minerality defined the finish along with dark earth, inner florals and a bitter twang of acidity.

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