2006 Andrea Oberto Barolo Vigneto Rocche

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  10/9/2022 - MJReb wrote: 92 Points

  After opening, quite rough with some harsh tannins, a decant of some hours have put the things better together. There is red fruit, tobacco, still with a decent amount of tannins. Quite good, even after a stunning Pontet Carnet 2009 just before.

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  3/27/2021 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points

  Nose: This really benefitted from about 2-3 hours in the decanter. When first opened, there was some oak poking through. With air, it peeled back into dark red cherries, raspberries, juniper berries, licorice, pipe tobacco, ash, earth notes, spices, violets, savory tones, and a touch of mint. There is excellent depth with the tones just beginning to enter a mature place.
  
  Taste: The feel is Full bodied with tart, high acidity and chewy, high tannins. The structure is slightly pulling back, but there is a coarseness to the tannins. There is good depth to the feel with dark red cherries, raspberries, juniper berries, licorice, pipe tobacco, spices, earth notes, violets, mint, and savory tones.
  
  Overall: This is beginning to really enter a good window. The oak can integrate a little more, but I’m not sure if the coarseness to the tannins will improve. This can easily age for another 8+ years in a good cellar, though it is more than a good time to open one now.

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  7/28/2018 - Slaz Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Has evolved considerably relative to my last tasting in 11/2016. Much more balanced, with reasonably integrated tannins, mature licorice notes, good acidity, and black berry notes on the palate. Lots of earthy notes, with wet forest and truffles. Has plenty of life ahead even if approachable and enjoyable already (with an hour or two of decanting).

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  11/5/2016 - Slaz Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Typical Barolo notes of licorice on the palate. Still chewy and somewhat tannic, without tertiary notes yet, even after 3 hours of decanting. One of the slower evolving Barolos. Drink 2018+.

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  10/3/2011 - avp wrote:

  Lunch at the Ristorante Bovio in La Morra tasting through three subsequent young vintages of the wine.
  Smoky oak notes, more closed than the others and with better complexity and structure. Long.

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