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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by schan109 on 12/27/2020 & rated 94 points: Bottle breathe for 2 hours and double decant before serving. Fully matured with some orange “ring” surrounding the liquid. Powerful with blackberry, tobacco, wood and branches. Powerful and long finishing. (389 views) | | | Tasted by Lype on 11/22/2018: Fresh, attractive dark fruit. tempting flavours which this very nice to drink. Clearly a strong vintage. (484 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 11/22/2018 & rated 94 points: 13% alcohol. Bottled in a 0,72-liter bottle.
Developed, somewhat translucent and quite dark cherry color with a reddish-orange rim. Aged, quite tertiary and slightly funky nose with aromas of ripe black cherries and blackberry jam, some sweet volatile notes, a little bit of wizened sour cherries, light barnyardy notes of brett, a hint of aged mocha character and a touch of lifted minty notes. The wine is ripe, dense and full-bodied on the palate with complex flavors of wizened dark forest fruits, some leathery notes of brett, a little bit of sweet, almost liqueur-like dark fruit, light funky notes of barnyard, an acetic hint of balsamic VA and a touch of sour cherry bitterness. The wine is impressively structured with its rather high acidity and quite ample tannins that slowly pile up on gums. The finish is juicy, complex and moderately grippy with developed flavors of ripe dark fruits, some wizened dark berries, a little bit of leathery brett, light balsamic notes of VA, a tertiary hint of beef consommé and a touch of sour cherry bitterness.
An impressive powerhouse of a wine for an aged Boca. Although this wine was left in the shadow of the even more impressive Vallana Boca 1964 that was served alongside, this was still an exceptional wine for an Alto Piemonte red and easily among the best Vallana wines I've tasted - by a large margin. While many older Vallana wines are falling apart or even dead by now, this wine was still going very strong and not showing any signs of giving up. Highly recommended. (849 views) |
| Antonio Vallana e Figlio Producer websiteNebbiolo Blend Exact position on weinlagen-info.deItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorPiedmont Vignaioli Piemontesi (Italian only)
On weinlagen-infoNorthern PiedmontRegional History:
The wines of Piemonte are noted as far back as Pliny's Natural History. Due to geographic and political isolation, Piemonte was without a natural port for most of its history, which made exportation treacherous and expensive. This left the Piemontese with little incentive to expand production. Sixteenth-century records show a mere 14% of the Bassa Langa under vine - most of that low-lying and farmed polyculturally. In the nineteenth century the Marchesa Falletti, a French woman by birth, brought eonologist Louis Oudart from Champagne to create the first dry wines in Piemonte. Along with work in experimental vineyards at Castello Grinzane conducted by Camilo Cavour - later Conte di Cavour, leader of the Risorgimento and first Prime Minister of Italy - this was the birth of modern wine in the Piedmont. Outside of the Langhe, the most prominent area of wine production in Piemonte is the chain of sub-alpine hills that run through the provinces of Novara and Vercelli. Here the Romans introduced spionia, an ancient variety that thrived in foggy climates. Whether this was in fact a genetic ancestor of Nebbiolo is unknown, but the derivation of its name, Spanna, is now how the locals refer to this noble grape. The Morainic soils, mostly deposited along the Sesia River, are of glacial origin and produce more medium-bodied, aromatically driven nebbiolo than in the Langhe. The appellations of note in Novara are Gattinara, Lessona and Bramaterra, and in Vercelli are Ghemme, Fara, Boca, and Szizzano.
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