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• Rolle27 Likes this wine: 96 points

  June 28, 2019 - Brilliant nebbiolo from a magical winemaker. This is what good and mature Barolo is all about. Ready to enjoy and will probably stay strong for another 4-5 yrs. Everybody deserves to taste a wine like this to get a solid referencepoint for when a wine is at its peak. The nose was full of roses and little lovely mint flirt. The palate had it all - dark sweet berries, earthy, truffled aromas ..... when nebbiolo goes into its secondary (mature) stage the flavours just go on forever. I really loved this wine. Just came home ten days ago from a 4 days trip to barolo - with a lot of 2015 tasting in the belt. Nothing came close to this one. I do like young barolo, but everytime I find a wine in its prime, it lifts the experience to a completely different level. I feel extremely lucky, that I have a solid portfolio of Cappellano from 2010 and 2013 in the cellar. Feels like heaven is waiting for me. Btw - 2014 is actually not my fav barolo year, but even in this vintage Cappellano made fantastic barolos. It is like years doesn´t matter to Augusto, he is a true magician.

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• MrOctoberfest commented:

  7/20/19, 2:37 PM - This Barolo will outlive you if properly stored. It won’t even hit it's stride until 2025. Drinking this wine over the next 4-5 years is a travesty. This isn’t mature, it isn’t even out of it’s infancy.

• Rolle27 commented:

  7/20/19, 3:16 PM - On my palate 2011 is not a long term vintage in barolo. You are probably right that this cappellano beauty will last for quite some years, but I like it now - as well as almost any other barolo 2011 has been splendid. A warm july and august gave a lot of ripe and sweet fruit, and I see no reason not to drink some of it early. I am no always looking for the secondary notes and expressions that comes with age. A younger model can do the job very well if you let her.
  To me 2011 is much better now than any other vintage > 2005.
  Everybody at my dinner tabel that day had nothing but a worldclass experience with this wine. And that is what drinking wine is all about - not dates and figures. Travesty or not - I couldn´t care less. And one thing is for sure - that wine did not live longer than me. And why the heck should I aim for that?

• MrOctoberfest commented:

  7/20/19, 6:14 PM - Cappellano, Cavallotto, Roagna, and other wines you have commented on are traditional wines that need decades and not years to reach their potential. You present yourself as an authority on the region, and yet your entire tasting history on CT involves Baroli >2007. You have no idea what these wines are capable of.
  
  Should anyone else stumble on your review, I want them to understand that that your opinion is completely at odds with everyone with extensive experience with Nebbiolo.

• Rolle27 commented:

  7/20/19, 10:55 PM - I have every idea of what these wines are capable of!
  I do no present myself as anything but a wine lover. The rest is your words, not mine. Why don´t you spend your time one something a bit more constructive than judging people you don´t know. You have no idea about who I am and what my background is. Neither do you know about my Barolo background and how many wines I drink. I have been travelling in the Barolo area for 25 years with more than 30 visits. I was there 6 weeks ago tasting +100 wines. A lot of them more than 20 years, some of them more than 40 years old. I don´t post notes on wines that are nothing but show offs and impossible to find. I post when I have time, when there is a chance for people to find the wine and finally when I feel for it.
  When I was there last sommer, I had a private dinnner with the The vineyard manager from one of biggest Barolo wineries, that I have known for many years, and he served me a wine (blindtasting) with the following introduction: This is the best Barolo I have tasted in a couple of years. It was a Bartolo Mascarello 2013! I am sure he did not feel it as a crime to drink it young.
  My personal fav that evening was a 1996 Cappellano Barolo Piè Franco, but how many people can afford and find a wine like that?
  Good luck with drinking your wines when they are +50 years, I´ll drink a lot of mine before - and I´ll keep posting notes on some of the younger ones that can be reached by normal people out there. If you don´t like my tasting notes, leave em, and go drink your old wines instead.
  
  “completely at odds with everyone with extensive experience with Nebbiolo.” Ha ha ha. Do I sense god the almighty here? Wauw, welcome to CT. Sorry to realize that you are a supercilious moron.

• MrOctoberfest commented:

  3/6/24, 5:51 PM - I had this wine last Saturday, and I just wanted to chime in and remind you that I was right and you were dead wrong. This wine might be approaching maturity, but is still not there.
  
  Since you haven’t posted a review since 2020, I’m guessing that you didn’t survive Covid. Good riddance.
  
  Everyone else, don’t drink a legendary Barolo producer at 7 years of age and call it fully mature, even in a year like 2011.

• Rolle27 commented:

  3/6/24, 10:48 PM - Yes, I have passed away and am now sitting in heaven's wine bar, drinking mature Bartolo Mascarello 2016 with the Lord Himself, who, by the way, turned out not to be you at all. I hope I'm not destroying your illusory self-image with that revelation. If it makes you sad, just ask your doctor to significantly increase your medication, and you'll surely be happy again.
  
  Who knows? Maybe one day you'll have an experience that allows you to somewhat join in when the experts talk about wine?
  
  Salute, and big thanks for your always unconditional and devoted support and endorsement. Glad you like my Tasting notes.

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