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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Claret & CdP Gang on 12/3/2023 & rated 95 points: Serious browning, v good ullage, lovely mature nose, stunningly good, delicious & wonderful experience (266 views) | | | Tasted by RichEB1 on 3/26/2023 & rated 94 points: Popped another one of these for my Mom's bday, and it was just as good as the last one. Incredible wine that will legit live to infinity. And just for fun....I added a picture of the cork (in good shape and normal size ;) (591 views) | | | Tasted by RichEB1 on 3/30/2022 & rated 94 points: I 1000% agree with Michael's note below - it was SHOCKING how young this wine showed! Honestly, double blind you'd probably call this as a mid-2000's vintage. He nailed the TN and I honestly don't have anything else to add. 2 bottles left that I'm in no hurry to open as these should live to infinity! (707 views) | | | Tasted by Michael T. Zoppo on 12/24/2021: Incredibly youthful, you can't believe the label says 1955. And the dark color confuses you even more. Bright fruit on the red/dark red side of things, tons of soil character, floral notes, bright acidity, and an epically long finish. I don't usually go for wines this old, but this was truly an enjoyable bottle and worth the tariff if you can find it. (709 views) | | | Tasted by Henda on 9/23/2017 flawed bottle: Madeira - Helt gone. (1653 views) | | | Tasted by Tim Heaton on 4/11/2014: Antonio Vallana e Figlio: extensive vineyard(s) tour and vertical tasting (The Family's Cellar, Maggiora, Italia): {in cantina} Fascinatingly dark color, with just a minimum of bricking. After 2 hours of aeration in decanter, this was poured to my glass, though I was not at all ready for what followed. Still amazingly fresh on the nose, with a repeating confluence of fresh berries, soil and flowers. The palate is full, precise, seamless; the texture/mouthfeel is singular. Still full of grip and tension, the wine clearly has a few decades of excellent drinking yet ahead (some more positive evolution, too). Beautiful, complete, with a finish that lasts for minutes. I concluded my note with "hauntingly good". very highly recommended
Served non-blind.
https://italianwine.blog/ (4090 views) | | | Tasted by kenv on 5/9/2013 & rated 95 points: Antonio Vallana Vertical: 2010-1954 (Del Posto Restaurant, NYC): Complex perfumed nose. Thick and youthful in the mouth. An amazingly youthful wine. Long, complex, bright red fruit. Will likely improve for another decade and last forever! Hands down wine of the night. (4087 views) | | | Tasted by LWI on 12/1/2012 & rated 92 points: Very short cork, but only soaked 1/3rd through. In neck fill. Dark, more red than bricking; a bit shy on the nose, but hints of underbrush, meat juice and cherries; fresh and almost transparent in the mouth, red and dark berries, well hung meat, long and with a lovely acidity that makes it most food friendly. Tannins gone. How these keep! (2617 views) |
| Antonio Vallana e Figlio Producer websiteNebbioloNebbiolo is a red grape indigenous to the Piedmont region of Italy in the Northwest. The grape can also be found in other parts of the world, though they are not as respected.
Nebbiolo is often considered the "king of red wines," as it is the grape of the famed wines of Barolo DOCG, Barbaresco DOCG, and Roero DOCG. It is known for high tannins and acidity, but with a distinct finesse. When grown on clay, Nebbiolo can be very powerful, tannic, and require long aging periods to reach its full potential. When grown on sand, the grape exhibits a more approachable body with more elegant fruit and less tannins, but still has high aging potential.
"Nebbiolo" is named for the Italian word, "nebbia", which means "fog", in Italian and rightfully so since there is generally a lot of fog in the foothills of Piedmont during harvest.
Nebbiolo is a late-ripening variety that does best in a continental climate that boasts moderate summers and long autumns. In Piedmont, Nebbiolo is normally harvested in October.
More links:
Varietal character (Appellation America) | Nebbiolo on CellarTrackerItaly 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.
Colline NovaresiThe appellation Colline Novaresi was created as a DOC in 1994. |
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