Community Tasting Note

• Ideasthatstick wrote:

  December 29, 2015 - Super light weight Nebbiolo, and, IMHO, way way over priced. Maybe 12.95$ not the 24.00 I paid, based, I figure, on its provenance. The good: beautiful color, fresh, slowly revealing super light - to non existing - tannins, elegant fruit. The bad: thin, riding on coat tails of its Piedmont origin - probably it's biggest flaw - kind of empty. The ugly: the price, Short lived, over the evening, take away the alcohol, and you have an odd Kool-aid flavor. Professional critics overstated the quality/character. I went back and read the original Garagiste email, it was to be the second coming. It isn't. If you have some, as do I, pull it out for indiscriminate guests, the last bottle of the evening or take it to a party. I just don't see long term here.

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• tlm66 commented:

  12/30/15, 1:05 AM - Some useful comments and valid review of the wine but, in the end, the complete antithesis to your 'Profile'. You comment on what is wrong with Cellartracker, yet, you do exactly the same thing. Plus you make personal attacks. Waste of time and effort.

• Ideasthatstick commented:

  12/30/15, 2:24 AM - Noted

• wormfarmer commented:

  12/31/15, 12:02 PM - Not sure I see personal attacks. Nor do I see how this review is the antithesis to Ideas' profile, which simply expresses the same mixed feelings we all (most of us sentient wine-drinkers, anyway) have toward using an ill-conceived, RP-conceived points system as a primary lens through which to view/evaluate our wines. For what it's worth.

• tlm66 commented:

  12/31/15, 2:35 PM - Ideasthsatstick graciously amended the original review and I very much enjoy his reviews, particularly on wines from Garagiste.
  
  Everyone is entitled to their opinion in a completely subjective field, and as such, no one should name call or bash.

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