Community Tasting Note

• rmcbrayer wrote: 94 points

  February 3, 2018 - Cafe Juanita Monfortino / Asili Dinner (Cafe Juanita, WA): Decanted for 30 min and served alongside a 2001 Monfortino during a long Piedmontese dinner. Dark red with no bricking. The Asili smelled like cherries and menthol with a touch of oak., and had more expressive aromas than the Monfortino all night. In the mouth, it tasted like dark cherries, forest floor, and roses, with dusty tannins. Nicely balanced, but it lacked the acidity and oomph to stand up to richer dishes. A great old world Barbaresco to be sure, and it is drinking well right now. But the Monfortino bested it.

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