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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Dugis on 8/16/2022 & rated 91 points: Lovely earthy notes. Great rusty tint in the glass. Quite lovely (555 views) | | | Tasted by quaffnov on 5/21/2022 & rated 90 points: Four hour decant, this could use several hours more air time. The nose is a wonderful blend of tar and roses with underbrush in the mix. The palate is strong with angular, grippy tannins that dry the tongue out heavily, this has big tannic structure. Cherry and roses are present, the tannins make it a little harder to track. This is in angular point in its development, needing several more years of cellar time to develop further complexity and allow the tannins to calm further. (557 views) | | | Tasted by burrrrgundy on 8/6/2018 & rated 90 points: Pretty nice and easy drinking at this point. Took a little bit of time to coax the flavors out but I didn't decant. Just popped and drank. Overall I prefer 2011 over 2012 in this wine. In the future I will probably forgo the Reserva. Not worth the $50+ price tag imho but it was fun to try it. (2025 views) | | | Tasted by Ultimatewinekick_Andreas on 1/29/2018 & rated 89 points: Concentrated strawberry and raspberry cordial dominate the impression initially but then a light footed but still very forward acidity appear. This results in accessible and easy to like Nebbiolo that still has some depth (1896 views) | | | Tasted by Eriklainen on 12/20/2017: Choclate, dark cherries, plums, sous bois, some fortified wine in the nose. No menthol. Tannins a little weak, acid is okay, some fungus and then the usual cherry. Nose more interesting than taste which lasts a little shorter than expected. (1802 views) | | | Tasted by StevenM on 12/15/2017 & rated 90 points: A super Nebbiolo. Medium body delivering cherry, cinnamon and mineral. Alcohol hot and prominent. Tannins strong yet not overpowering. This will certainly store for a few years, but I like it now, especially when in the mood for high alcohol and pepper on the tongue. And the whacky bottle is added fun! (1402 views) | | | Tasted by Ian S on 11/12/2017: Quite youthful, yet as often with Travaglini, quite approachable (1593 views) |
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Vinous, The Last Frontier: Nebbiolos of Alto Piemonte & Valtellina (Jun 2018) (6/18/2018)
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JamesSuckling.com (8/23/2017)
(Travaglini Gattinara Riserva, Red, Italy) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (11/21/2016)
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Travaglini is a family-owned wine estate in the tiny Gattinara appellation within north Italy’s renowned Piedmont region. Established in the 1920s by Clemente Travaglini, the winery is Gattinara’s most esteemed producer of traditional, limited-production wines from the nebbiolo grape (known locally as “spanna”). The family’s passion for winemaking has not diminished through the generations; Cristina and Cinzia Travaglini, great-granddaughters of Clemente, manage day-to-day operations at winery. Cinzia’s husband Massimo Collauto is chief winemaker, a role he inherited from his late father-in-law and beloved mentor, Giancarlo Travaglini (winemaker at Travaglini for 45 years). Giancarlo’s wife, Lilliana, oversees vineyard operations.
NebbioloNebbiolo 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.
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