1970 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92 points

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  3/3/2018 - rlove wrote:

  An attractive nose of sweet berry and forest floor is marred by a metallic note on the palate. A tad thin and fully resolved but livened by fresh acidity. The 1970 Barolo Riserva is past its prime but still quite nice.
  
  (An aside on the label, with thanks to Eric Guido and others for information: This is labeled both "Barolo Riserva" and "Cascina Francia", the latter of which Giacomo didn't own until 1974. This bottle is in fact a Barolo Riserva made from purchased grapes, probably from Monforte d'Alba. By the time Giacomo labeled the bottles, he owned Cascina Francia. A good guess is that these are the labels from 1980, when he also made a Barolo Riserva.)

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  12/13/2017 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Here I found a dark display of mature Nebbiolo, complemented by layers of earthy, savory aromas. Dried leaves, dusty old spices, and hints of roasted meat wafted up from the glass, yet it remained feminine and pure throughout the experience. On the palate, a soft and inviting textural display gave way to tart red fruits with lifting acidity that created an almost-mouthwatering experience. It finished with saturating tart berry tones, earthy soil tones and lingering undergrowth.
  
  In fact, the ‘70 Barolo that was labeled Cascina Francia was due to a lapse in time between bottling, labeling and shipping. It isn’t a Cascina Francia at all (they didn’t own the vineyard at that time), but that didn’t stop it from being one of my wines of the night. At that time, the fruit would have come from a source in Monforte, but little else is known.

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  10/24/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote:

  SAG (Blind) Tasting (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind in what turned out to be a "1970" flight. Open many hours by the time we got here, this was again obviously from Piedmont for all tasters tonight. Red cherry with lots of licorice and dried rose petal. Good structure, very charming right now.

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  3/11/2007 - Gregory Dal Piaz wrote: 89 Points

  19 bottles of barolo or how I drank my Monfortini; 3/10/2007-3/11/2007 (6h): I was going to open this earlier in the day but forgot to so this was opened for maybe 2 hours when we got to it around 8 pm. The nose shows a touch of maderization, lots of mint, funky, earthy, boiled pigs feet then cocoa. Good freshness and acidity with good flavors and intensity though predominantly towards the bouillion and cocoa end of the spectrum, the finish is lovely with a bright, clean limestone vein. delicious though at the end of it's plateau. Drink em if you got em.

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