1947 Fontanafredda Barolo

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90 points

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  9/28/2023 - Enfant sauvage Likes this wine:

  Drank this for Mark's 50th. Very similar experience to Moscowvino, this was astonishingly young and delicious and I would have expected blending/topping up, but based on the cork, if that was done it was also done ages ago. Regardless, this was the favorite bottle of the night by far, even next to some fine benchmark vintages of Produttori del Barbaresco. Much better for me than the current numeric ratings here.

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  7/29/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points

  More Wine, Less Delta (Osteria Langhe): Hard to criticize a 75+ year old bottle that still has plenty of rich fruit and freshening structure. Nose is pretty light, but lots of balsam enriched red fruit notes that add interest on the palate. Lingering finish.

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  7/29/2021 - acyso wrote: 88 Points

  Dinner at Osteria Langhe (Chicago, IL): A little too stinky and dirty on the nose for me. The palate though is significantly better, with so much fruit on it that I would have guessed this was two or three decades younger. It's hard to imagine that this wasn't topped off or something along the way because of just how young this feels on the palate. There are even still some tannins here! At the end of the day, perhaps more a curiosity than a wine I'd truly want to drink -- there were some other more compelling nebbiolos at the table this evening.

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  6/20/2021 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank side by side with a 54 Cappellano Barolo. Both had very similar profiles though I give the nod to the 47. Pale red colored. Not quite a rose. Floral aromatic of rose petals, cinnamon, and wet earth. Complex on the palate and very long with hints of barnyard, rose petals and asian spices

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  12/25/2016 - ParisWino Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Astonishly dark color considering the age of this bottle, almost like a young pinot noir -- much darker than many orangish '71 Baroli I have had (and I confess this is my first Barolo older than '70). I would have suspected adulteration (despite sourcing it through CSW&S), but the cork was soaked through and clearly old and could not have been removed and recorked (without a Durand it would have become a crumbly mess....). On the nose the wine was reminiscent of soy, pine/resin, decaying strawberries, decaying violets, eucalyptus, a hint of sour cherries, and, by no means least of all, a healthy amount of VA. On the palate much the same, but with notes of tamari and cranberry too. Tannins are obviously fully resolved but the acidity is reasonably puckering; but then you wouldn't drink this other than with food anyway. The wine, or this bottle at least, is still perfectly alive and capable of giving pleasure, albeit mostly intellectual pleasure. Needless to say it's in slow decline and is better drunk sooner rather than letter, but a bottle opened on its 75th anniversary (in 2022) could still prove to be plenty interesting. Alas this was my one and only...

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