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| Drinking window: Drink between 2005 and 2010 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 86.7 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 20 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mats13 on 6/2/2020 & rated 88 points: Similar to last time. My last bottle, not sad to see this particular offering go. The other Dessilani wines seemed to have paid off better than the Fara Caramino. (548 views) | | | Tasted by MarkLA on 12/22/2019 & rated 87 points: Dusty nose with dried cherry, plum skin, licorice, cocoa, mahogany, leather, and iodine. Quite tannic and dry, even into the 3rd day, though it does show a touch more fruit and sweetness in the midpalate (87+?). I wouldn't touch another bottle for a few more years, but I also don't know where it will go. (567 views) | | | Tasted by mats13 on 3/17/2018 & rated 88 points: Sadly there is very little going on here - bottle was perfect, decanted about an hour. Flat, very little taste, very little anything. Other Dessilani wines have paid bigger dividends, this was disappointing. (818 views) | | | Tasted by 1961Vintage on 3/31/2017 & rated 93 points: Deep rich chocolate after 3 hours open and decanted. Yum (1132 views) | | | Tasted by JanFrom on 1/28/2013 & rated 89 points: Brilliant. Drink now. (2153 views) | | | Tasted by ktrh on 10/16/2010 & rated 87 points: Exceptional value (2055 views) | | | Tasted by ktrh on 1/14/2010 & rated 84 points: Lots of spices, herbs and some oak. A bit of licorice. Very different from the previous bottle which I really enjoyed...bottlevariation? (2104 views) | | | Tasted by LWI on 1/8/2010 & rated 89 points: 80 % nebbiolo and 20 % vespolina. Deep color. Structured and fine, a great surprise and none took it for a nebbiolo (1448 views) | | | Tasted by ktrh on 7/1/2009 & rated 88 points: Strong tobacco nose, very earthy and mineral. Quite rich. Excellent QPR (1912 views) | | | Tasted by ttriche on 10/25/2008 & rated 80 points: Coarse and hot when warm, flat when cold. Nice ruby in the glass and some faint strawberry-rose aromas, but nothing special. We used about half a bottle in a braise and drank the rest with it. (1734 views) | | | Tasted by arijus on 3/15/2008: Deep red. The oak and the tannins seem more integrated than earlier bottles. Best with food (red meat). Should benefit from further cellaring. (1407 views) | | | Tasted by Nørgaard on 5/17/2007 & rated 88 points: God strruktur. Kræver meget luft. (1718 views) | | | Tasted by arijus on 5/12/2007 flawed bottle: Corked. (1338 views) | | | Tasted by arijus on 2/23/2007: Still young and tannic. Quite a bit of oak. Spicy on the palate. Dry finish. Very good for the price. (1334 views) | | | Tasted by mwieth on 4/13/2006: God til tilbudsprisen 50 kr. Mere tilgængelig end Ghemme 2001, og mere frugt. (1990 views) |
| Nebbiolo 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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