1998 Massolino Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda

Community Tasting Notes (43) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  2/16/2024 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  Audozed four hours before serving double-blind to some friends. As expected, even with some air prior to serving, this continued to open until it was finished some two hours later. I hadn't checked in on this vintage in some years and given this showing, I'm going to move my drink thru date from 2041 to 2036. Elegant, good freshness and plenty of fruit at the core to see this into the next decade. Red fruits with accents of black tea and savory. Loved it. highly recommended
  
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  12/1/2022 - wineswithmuscles Likes this wine:

  Dark, rich and fleshy, wonderfully mature. Crushed & macerated blackberries, plum, heaps of licorce and a beautifully kicking hint of lingonberry show up. Mouthfilling, almost exploding on the palate. Excellent to drink today and a much better bottle than the one some weeks ago.

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  10/21/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 87 Points

  During a Barolo/Piedmont tasting lunch, not blind. This was not very clean, funky, wtih dusty elements, drying tannins.

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  10/15/2022 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was open and very mature, with plenty of tertiary notes, like dried flowers, some underwood, mushroom, menthol, pine, some tar, tobacco. It‘s full-bodied, dense and pretty powerful, with medium tannin and good freshness with medium+ acidtiy and good length. This got more and more oxidative over the course of the evening. Not surprisingly like many 1998, it‘s time to drink up. The rating reflects the initial impression, before oxidizing.

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  7/16/2022 - WineDoctors wrote: 91 Points

  garnet, fade and starts to break. Hint of oxidation. Plum. Delicious with gruyere sweet onion hickory-smoked bacon flatbread

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