Color: light golden yellow
Smell: granite, white floral notes, baguette, and delicate & faint hints of vanilla
Taste: Mineral, yellow apple, green apple, and lemon meringue
Overall: Medium body, medium+ acidity, medium fruit, with a wonderful balance and deft balance. Outstanding!!!
NOTE - At almost 5 hours open this wine really became all about mineral, stone, and the fruit just seemed to climb out of the glass into your nose. I really would love to get more of this at the release price...

Color: Pale yellow
Smell: Ripe tropical fruits
Taste: Ripe star fruit, cherimoya, and a hint of durian...wild on the palate.
Overall: Outstanding. However, this is just such a wild wine that I'm not sure I can enjoy it. Really rich, weighty, and almost unctious. Medium acidity, Med++ fruit, and medium-full body. This would be great with spicy, rich dishes.

Doing really well right now...almost smells and tastes like an aged Alsace wine...beautiful and holding strong.

Color: Ruby
Smell: Earth, herbs, clove, eucaliptis, and black fruits
Taste: Dried red fruits, strawberry, clove, and mushroom
Overall: Medium+ body, medium fruit, med acidity, and moderate length finish. Very Good

Color: Ruby with light bricking at the rim (barely showing sign of age)
Smell: Holly $h!t. This is freaking awesome! Tar, roses, dried red fruits, very "rustic" with hints of truffle and forest floor.
Taste: Cherry, cranberry, wild strawberry, tobacco, coffee grinds, woodsy notes, and a subtle note of wild Maine blueberries
Overall: This was just opened and I'm already impressed. I will be decanting this for about 4 hours before checking in on it again...Light body, intense but fine-grained tannin, medium fruit, high acidity, and a long finish. Outstanding!!

Color: Garnet
Smell: Funk, earth, manure, pencil shavings, flint, granite, and dark fruits
Taste: Dark fruits, red fruits, pencil cedar
Overall: Medium fruit, medium body, medium acidity, moderate complexity, and a medium long finish. Outstanding!

Color: Granite with slight bricking
Smell: Faint and subtle...this just seems too young
Taste: Dark fruit, blueberries, cedar and tobacco
Overall: Medium + body, Medium ++ tanin, medium + acidity, and moderate fruit, with a moderate finish. Outstanding.

Color: Peach pale golden
Smell: Almonds, nectarines, peach, yellow apples,
Taste: Cashews, peach, biscuit, dried apricots,
Overall: Wow...this was my first experience with this tête de cuvée. This was just lovely, medium body, medium fruit, medium+ aicidity, with a fine mousse that just sings on the palate. OUTSTANDING!!!!

This is just too much. Bombastic comes to mind...and that's taking it easy given my past experiences with this wine. Really ripe fruits, caramel, vanilla, mocha, candied fruit on the nose. The palate while silky smooth is also just a mess of fruit, candied caramel, chocolate, and vanilla. HOLD for another 2-3 years. Very good presently...Outstanding in the past and I think in due time this can be outstanding again.

After about 4-8 hours in the decanter this morphed into a very simple, basic, outstanding wine. I have to say it was honestly disappointing later on in the evening. I've never come across a Barbaresco that fell off so far with the air time. Not worth the coin...or if you are going to drink it...drink it from the bottle while the tannins are still ripping. Maybe this honestly just needs another 10+ years. Yet, I won't be buying any more of them at the current cost.