1999 Mauro Veglio Barolo Vigneto Gattera

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  8/1/2011 - Burgaddict wrote: 91 Points

  Mature, ruby red color. Earthy nose, complex, plum, figs, some glue "velpon". Sweet taste, dark fruit and plums, velvety, still quite some tannins. Tannins are mainly smooth, at the end a bit coarse, however these have mellowed out already wonderfully the last years. Finish is long and beautiful. Needs 1-2 years to smoothen further.

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  6/6/2011 - Tartiflette wrote: 90 Points

  This one wasn't quite up to the same satndard as the last I drank. Seemed somewhat older. Still very interesting, lust lacking the "bite" I like. No tannins lift. Quite brown color. Plums, cherries, tobacco, earth.

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  2/21/2011 - Tartiflette wrote: 92 Points

  What a pleasure to taste this wine. Bought, blind, on auction. Very aromatic. Cherries, tropical fruit, marzipan and lots of backbone. Decanted 1 hour before, and that helped. Long and fruity aftertaste. Not very strong on tannins, but ok for now. Questionable how it will perform in the long run.

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  9/13/2010 - Burgaddict wrote: 90 Points

  I bought 12 of these at an auction and have drunk one every year. Up till now I thought this wasn't a good buy (the only bad buy at an auction, everything else has been OK): coarse tannins, hardly any fruit; however the wine improved overnight. This year it is much better. The nose is still mediocre: velpon glue and some red fruit. Taste has changed: softer tannins, fresh red fruit, cool almost Burgundy like. Amazing! I'll try again next year.

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  7/26/2010 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 90 Points

  A Bunch of Wines on a Saturday Afternoon (Ken's): I would have preferred to wait on this, but I knew it would be long gone and it was sitting in the sun warming up. It is very tight right now. It is a big, tannic wine. Not much fruit showing. That said, there is a nice texture and seems to have some good stuffing. In about five years, it should be drinking much better. Make that 5 years and few months so it is not in the middle of summer. Still, with some coaxing, there is nice cherries and tar and good acidity.

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