2020 La Ca' Növa Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  4/28/2024 - AD_jutant wrote: 88 Points

  WSET3 Course Notes; 4/28/2024-6/9/2024 (WineHouse, Los Angeles): A: Pale garnet.
  N: Medium intensity. Potpourri, red currant, mulberry, slight raspberry, volcanised rubber, and cooked plum. Some cedar and a touch of dried meat.
  P: Dry, high acidity and tannin, high alcohol. Medium body and pronounced flavour intensity. Red and dark berries, red cherry, maybe even red apple peel, clove. Medium finish.
  AQ: Very good. I guessed Barbaresco 2017 blind as I picked up that it was a warm vintage. In my defense, I had never had any 2020 Piedmont Nebbiolo before and it was, apparently, indeed a warm vintage.
  8+/18 in my personal book but I am very picky about Nebbiolo.
  Can drink now, but the wine certainly has potential for ageing.

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  4/27/2024 - salil wrote: 90 Points

  Terrific wine, each sip starts with youthful red fruit and florality and turns more mineral and stony on the back end. It's obviously very primary right now, but I love the sense of freshness and lightness here - there's some fine grained tannin apparent, but most of the structure comes from the acidity which gives the fruit an incredibly light, crunchy sensation. Delicious wine, and I'm realizing that I need a lot more from this producer in my cellar.

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  3/18/2024 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 88 Points

  As ever, very well priced for a Barbaresco and - by that token - it helps to think of it as a serious Langhe Nebbiolo rather than a full-blown Barbaresco. On that basis it's consistently good - purity of Nebbiolo fruit character, some herbal complexity, a little tar. Significant structure on opening with grittiness to the tannins, much better on day 2 when it relaxes and expands aromatically. 3 years should do it a lot of good.

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  2/11/2024 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 88 Points

  Day 2: restrained nose dark with dirt, earth, licorice, mountain herbs. Hints of roses and black cherry and something cherry medicinal like. Spicy on the mouth and mostly showing structure - hints of strawberry and roses on entry but they fade into the savory and herbal and stoniness. bitterness into the end palate with earth and tar. Grippy with high acid and assertive tannins into the finish which shows a bitter with more structure then flavor - stony and herbal and savory. Not bad but not that interesting. Will see how the Montefico is. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 4/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 14/20.

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  1/21/2024 - bjamesclark wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted and let breathe for several hours to help open up.
  From the warmer 2020 vintage this wine shows a slightly more perfumed nose than the 19v.
  Gorgeous and layered aromas recall scents of wild raspberry, cranberry sauce, fresh pomegranate that weave into red rose and floral bouquet notes, spice, menthol, orange peel, forest floor, and fleeting hints of leather, tobacco and rooibos. Sexy.
  The palate is textured and full of energy on the medium-bodied frame. Very accessible (with air). The snappy acidity works in harmony with the slow building, full tannins and the impressive mid-palate density. Flavors show the vivid red fruits of raspberry, pomegranate, cranberry sauce and red apple that work in concert with the menthol, orange zest, spice, rooibos tea and slightly dried rose petals. The finish is long and so very attractive. This has an almost feminine touch to the classic and traditional side of Barbaresco.
  93/94

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