2007 Facelli Winery Barbera Sagemoor Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  8/11/2020 - novocane Likes this wine: 92 Points

  One of my last couple bottles and the wine is improving still.
  
  Third day. Bottle coated on the inside by a layer of sediment. Drinking outside with BBQ steak and sausage.
  
  Turning into a deep garnet/tawney. Nose of ripe cherries, pear with a little petroleum and barn floor. The wine has certainly lost its vivacious young fruit taste, and tannins are pretty well done. But a subtler muted fruit is still there, with cherries, plum, pear, wild blackberries. The fruit lingers on your palette for a good thirty seconds, turning very dry in your mouth and triggering the saliva glands. The almost sweetness leaves you wanting another sip. The back has just a little bitterness and dryness to finish it off, with the lingering aftertaste again bringing you back for more.
  
  This is the oldest barbera i've had and it's quite nice.

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  1/1/2018 - novocane Likes this wine: 89 Points

  5 bottles left from a case purchased in 2009, stored in a cellar; I was worried I waited too long to enjoy them, but thd wine is still very nice in 2018. In 2009, this tasted young, fruity, well balanced, without much complexity. Drinking today, the wine was decanted, but I started drinking with 15 minutes of opening. The front had sweet blackberry with a little vanilla, the back had a little bitterness of an older wine. On the second day, stored in the bottle with vacuvin top, the flavors were distinctly different. Gone was the young and fruity front, instead an acidic, dryer, but more consistent aged wine. Really enjoyed the bottle and looking forward to seeing if the other bottles have held up as well.

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  4/29/2012 - LGlasscock wrote: 85 Points

  Nicely balanced, a bit of 'mixed fruit' on the tongue, finish somewhat like a fig. Very good mouth feel, fairly food friendly.

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  9/19/2011 - pnwsun wrote:

  very nice. slight hint of some [unknown] fruit at

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  1/3/2011 - LGlasscock wrote: 86 Points

  Solid, needed time to open up. Pleasant sweet cherry flavours, finishes cleanly.

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