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• Barolo&Bovio Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 13, 2019 - This was outstanding tonight. There are many different sides of barolo that I appreciate, and this showed one of those in abundance -- black tea. The essence of tea can be found on the nose here as well as the palate, and both come across very positively. This is textbook Serralunga fruit. Darker, but still translucent, this has some tarry notes and menthol but the tea is the thing. Really outstanding. I favor long decants for most baroli but my taste upon decanting showed this to be an exception to that rule. The nose was heavily perfumed right out of the bottle and the palate was open for enjoyment. As with many of these wines, the nose faded and the acids hardened up a bit over 5-6 hours, but the first two hours were pure magic (so don't dump this in a decanter and miss that early window -- decant and immediately enjoy). The final few hours were quite good as well, it just showed more like an adolescent barolo in that window. No surprise there. Based on other reviews, I find this wine to be fairly under-rated........especially for Serralunga aficionados.

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• Ben H. commented:

  12/16/19, 6:53 AM - Santo Stefano di Perno is in Monforte d'Alba

• Barolo&Bovio commented:

  12/16/19, 9:00 AM - Ben, 100% agree. I should have been clearer about that. Specifically, Perno is located in the far NE corner of MdA, closely abutting SdA. To my taste, this plays more like Serralunga than anything else, and I appreciate that quality. Thought others might as well. Good note of clarification on your part.........

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