Community Tasting Note

• HowardNZ Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 21, 2022 - Recent wines drunk at home: Drunk from Zalto Denk'Art Burgundy stem over three evenings, over which it softened and mellowed. It needs a 4+ hour decant. Aldo Vacca’s favourite Riserva cuvée, and typically mine, as in the under-rated 2011 vintage. Colour good crimson, with garnet flecks. Perfumed – violets, lilacs and red roses – with bright, sweet-seeming Morello cherries, a little kirsch and Vosne spice rack. On palate, appropriately, not as sweet as the bouquet implies. Succulent, mainly black, cherries and plums. Ripe and rich but not, as is the vintage’s reputation, at all over-ripe. Bright, fruity, bold cassis flavours but also with savoury, umami elements. A little tobacco and red liquorice with some tar and old leather (particularly on the third evening). More weight, depth and power from the second evening. Fresh, precise acids. Fine grained tannins, but still with a little youthful grip. The 14.5% ABV alcohol is a bit of a surprise (no alcoholic burn). Quite open, a relatively early drinking Riserva vintage I would not expect to make really old bones. But for Produttori, that probably means it’ll drink well until at least 2035. An excellent, traditionally made Nebbiolo. 94+.

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2 Comments

• Motz commented:

  4/22/22, 6:35 AM - Informative note. Thanks!

• HowardNZ commented:

  4/22/22, 4:09 PM - Cheers Motz.

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