1967 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Riserva Monfortino Speciale

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  2/2/2024 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Vinous Monfortino Dinner with Roberto Conterno; 2/1/2024-2/2/2024 (Legacy Records, NYC): I was very impressed by the '67 Monfortino, a vintage I haven't heard much about. The wine showed beautiful aromatics of sweet, earthy red berry fruit, red florals, smoke, and roast meats, with a surprisingly fresh core of fruit. On the palate, it is fully resolved with beautiful inner sweetness and high acidity. A super enjoyable glass of wine.

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  8/1/2021 - fclarity wrote: 96 Points

  Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red center with light orange rims. It high- intensity nose blasted figs, violets, smoked meat, and minerals from the glass.
  
  In the mouth, this wine was fully ripe with firm rounded tannin, solid acidity, and great length. yet at the same time it was not heavy in any way.
  
  This wine clearly benefited (like so many nebbiolo wines do) from a 7 hour decant. An impressive showing for a wine that can be variable.

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  10/28/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 92 Points

  Mellow allspice, red fruited, very effusive, warm, and lively. Scotch-like peat notes.

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  2/2/2019 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Opened and decanted 3 hours prior to decanting back into the bottle for transport to La Festa 2019. Winner in the Monfortino flight of 61/64/67. Great development, full resolved but still so much pleasure and not in decline at all. Leather, saddle, umami, sweetness. Good perfume on the nose. Great length and finish.

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  12/10/2017 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This is a grand wine. Full bodied, some volatile acidity, utterly elegant and balanced, amazingly log on the palate. Forest floor, mushrooms, earth, mineral, raspberry, cherry, and blackberry. Just a great wine.

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