2003 Cappellano AB Normal

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90 points

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  7/21/2013 - Italiana Likes this wine:

  I smile whenever I recall the reason for the "Young Frankenstein" allusion. Teobaldo Cappellano was certainly one of a kind. As is this bottle--huge extract, high acidity, and very cherry fruit. Certainly atypical and very enjoyable.

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  7/7/2009 - hennlund wrote:

  Have opened 6 of these before - one has been brilliant and five have been undrinkable. This one was like the first; a wonderful wine - warm, but obvious cherry and cherrystones, very "juicy", fresh taste with excellent acids and tannins.

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  3/28/2009 - hennlund wrote:

  The second of these bottles, not as good as the one drunk a few weeks ago - lacked some of the mouthfilling, warm fruit of the prevoius one, and had a peculiar taste that reminded me about DMSO. It tasted almost like the previous bottle did on day two. Strange. Can the bottle have been slightly flawed? Too much sulfur? Still a pretty nice wine, though, and it directs the thoughts more in the direction of southern France than Italy.

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  3/5/2009 - hennlund wrote:

  A "once off" Barbera, in spite of its Vino da Tavola classification. Amazing compared to any other Barbera I have tasted. Intense, strong deep nose, a hint of nuts, dark mature red berries, bitter almonds. Full body with a taste that delivers the promises the nose brings - soft and round and intense with well balanced acids. Very long, juicy and pleasing finish.

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  2/25/2009 - Manjari wrote: 90 Points

  This is a one time only Barbera from Cappellano. Certainly Ab Normal, and what a wine this is. Full bodied barbera, loads of red berries, spice and integrated oak. Consentrated, intence, fresh cherry acidity and spicy oak with a looong finish. I have tasted about 10 bottles of this vintage, and it seems that they have put quite a bit of sulphur in it before bottling. Probably due to the extreme temperatures this year. So my advice for anybody who is planning on opening a bottle, is to decant it well in advance. That has helped most of the bottles I have tried anyway.

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