Keeps on getting better. Amazing and increasingly classic barbaresco profile. Early on, I worried about the oak in these wines - but as it hits 20 years, everything is coming together beautifully.
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Keeps getting better. Still needs 8-10 hours of slow O, and time in the glass, but it is terrific, with tannin, fruit, acid all in wonderful balance, delicious dark berry and spice, beginning to show earthy, iron notes, too. Years to go, but in a good place now.
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Second bottle this week. Consistently very enjoyable with an hour or two of decant time. Lovely plum color, red fruit on the nose, balanced flavors. Lacking in depth and structure, so AG is likely right that this is for short-term drinking. But right now it's very nice.
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4/3/2018 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 93 Points
Keeps on getting better. Amazing and increasingly classic barbaresco profile. Early on, I worried about the oak in these wines - but as it hits 20 years, everything is coming together beautifully.
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4/22/2017 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 92 Points
Keeps getting better. Still needs 8-10 hours of slow O, and time in the glass, but it is terrific, with tannin, fruit, acid all in wonderful balance, delicious dark berry and spice, beginning to show earthy, iron notes, too. Years to go, but in a good place now.
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5/24/2015 - SteveHyde wrote: flawed
Something off about this bottle. My sensitivity to TDA is not super high, and it didn't come across as corked, but not right.
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9/13/2014 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 91 Points
Second bottle this week. Consistently very enjoyable with an hour or two of decant time. Lovely plum color, red fruit on the nose, balanced flavors. Lacking in depth and structure, so AG is likely right that this is for short-term drinking. But right now it's very nice.
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9/11/2014 - SteveHyde Likes this wine: 91 Points
Still needs a bit of air to come together. If serving decant for an hour. Lovely pale plum-cherry color, bright fruit, modest depth and finish.
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