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• kakpoo Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 24, 2023 - Thanks to the folks who wrote accurate tasting notes on this wine recently, I can finally say that I had Produttori Barbaresco that delivered on it's reputation. I've had several aged Produttori Barbaresco wines that either failed to blossom before the bottle was gone, or that failed to blossom even over several days of tasting. This bottle was exactly what I would expect a 12 year old Riserva to taste like:
  Aromas of cool climate blueberries, ripe black plum, black truffle shavings, rose petal, black berry, red licorice. On the attack there is initially a touch of sweet fruit, followed by medicinal herbs. There is still the massive acid and tannin you would expect from Barbaresco, but there is also powerful aromas and flavors to compensate. The tannins are also a little less gritty and scratchy than they would be in a younger vintage. The finish is dominated by dried blackberry, concord grape, menthol and structure. Score is 93+ with the plus indicating that I think this wine will be even better in a few years time as these tannins continue to integrate. I'm happy to have the better part of a case remaining, but wont open another bottle before Fall of 2025. My reasoning is that while this had good structure to stand up to my mushroom pasta dish tonight, it actually had too much fruit and dominated the subtle mushroom flavors in the pasta. I much preferred the almost devoid-of-fruit 2001 Luigi Einaudi Barolo with my pasta. However, if you were going to eat some braised lamb tonight then this 2011 Asili would probably make a great pairing.

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