1967 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Rabajà

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  1/27/2024 - kenv Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dave B Visits Albany, Day 2 (Salil's, Albany, NY): [Double-decanted for a half hour around 6pm. Cork saturated. Some schmutz under the capsule.] Nose of mint and cherries. Fully mature, but still long and complex. Lovely stuff. A wine of meditation.

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  8/11/2023 - cct wrote: 93 Points

  double decanted for sediment in the AM. Cork fully soaked. Drunk that evening.
  
  Lovely mature nose with dark red nebbiolo fruit, rosehip, iron, leafy mature notes and tar. It's broad on the palate, sapid and dense yet light on its feet with excellent balance. Finishes long. An outstanding bottle but not he best I have had. It did open some more over the evening, fleshing out. It di have the fleeting nuance of the best bottles of this I have had, but did quite reach the peaks. Unfortunately with small pours and it being the first wine, it was hard to follow over time. Note to self, drink the next bottle one more time. At peak.

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  5/11/2023 - cct wrote: flawed

  The color was good and I had high hopes for a good bottle opening it in the AM. Double decanted in the AM. Drunk over a couple hours in the evening. It seemed a little off, but not bad. Just not what a proper bottle could be. With air, it became evident it was corked. 0/2 tonight. Bummer

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  2/25/2023 - GuanYu Likes this wine: 95 Points

  When I cut the foil, I saw the cork had sunken into the bottle by about 1 cm and looked wet. I was very concerned. When I attempted to uncork the sunken cork, the cork slipped into the bottle with just a light push and a noise similar to popping a can of soda was heard. I was relieved knowing that the bottle was sealed despite the sunken cork.
  
  I was going to decant the bottle, but with the cork inside the wine, I changed the plan and just let it breathe in the bottle for 3 hours. The bottle's fill level was excellent.
  
  The wine was fine and beautiful tertiary bouquet and taste of a fully mature Barbaresco in full force. Rim was almost cognac color, with brick red center. Dried apricot, leather, licorice, and tobacco. Very complex and taste kept changing with each sip. Long seductive finish.

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  8/24/2022 - cct wrote: 95 Points

  Double decanted in the AM, then drunk over several hours tonight.
  
  A tawny red hue when opened in the AM which had morphed into a mature red hue by evening.
  A near haunting mature nose. Terrific perfume with rose, menthol, cherry, tar, and balsam, all with a ferrous backbone. On the palate, it is structured yet effortlessly balanced. It's deep and incredibly pure with jewel like clarity and a weightless, expansive palate presence. This is the iron first in a velvet glove. This wine seems to be hovering at peak with no signs of fading with beautiful fruit and perfume with terrific length. Its hard to convey, but there is a ton going on here: fruit, perfume, earthy, balsam, and savory mature notes, but everything coalesces into a seamless, greater whole, and the wine just is. A wine with an inner calm and sense of poise. Finishes with fine, yet firm (for a '67) nebbiolo tannins. Drinking at peak with time in hand. Fantastic! 95

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