10/31/2023 - SuperSomm wrote:

Medium ruby colour. Medium and developing nose with strawberry, raspberry, cedars leather, wet leaves, forest floor and violet. Medium (+) taste of strawberry cedar, leather, wet leaves and forest floor. Long and dry finish. High acidity. Medium tannins. Medium body. A very good Rapsani Red. Drink now or over the next eight years. Goes well with duck, mushroom, pork or veal.

3/26/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

I had higher hopes for this. I'll admit, I was swooned into buying one to try because of the cool old-style label but also because of Envoyer's tasting note for it. 100yr old vines was intriguing! As someone else noted it lacked some expected intensity and complexity. A very solid $10-$15 rose' I paid $26 for. If I had loved the wine, the btl might have made it on cool wine btl shelf:).

2/15/2024 - Xavi1986 Likes this wine:

Tast Vinica Lleida. Uva absolutamente desconocida. Estilo particular de los Jura. Diferente, salino, complejo. Con unos años mas seguramente estaria mejor.

9/23/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

Dried cherries, orange peel, apples, airy herbs, a little meaty and spicy... savory and fresh at once, this is for food, i would say liberally herbed roast chicken.

9/5/2022 - FEDEVIDAL Likes this wine:

Se decantó durante el servicio, no previamente. Presenta un color fresa muy claro al borde y más oscuro al centro. Al principio el aroma es un efluvio de fresas, caramelo o jarabe de fresas, al cabo de un tiempo la intensidad disminuye y la fresa pasa a un segundo plano, ahora la intensidad es media y hay cerezas , grosellas rojas , casis, acompañadas con tierra negra, con toques de laurel y pimienta. La boca presenta un cuerpo medio ( aunque al principio parece tener poco cuerpo), taninos muy suaves y discretos, alta acidez, tono ligeramente dulzón, expresión muy frutal referido a fruta roja y fresca y final largo. Quizá una mayor guarda lo haga evolucionar favorablemente.

Se compone de la variedad Baga , tinta, que al parecer es autóctona de Portugal y Jaen , blanca, que podría ser lo que aquí llamamos Xarel.lo aunque no estoy seguro.

Un vino sorprendente y especial, que parece responder al principio de minina intervención, muy puro, fresco, natural, con mucho equilibrio, muy interesante en todo caso. En la mesa hubo opiniones muy contradictorias sobre este vino desde quién lo encontró un simple vino joven de diario, a quién lo consideró como extraordinario

6/2/2023 - RoelD Likes this wine:

A source of excellent Jura-wine this domain was recently taken over by a well known Burgundy house as is the case with several houses in the region (e.g. dom.Jacques Puffeney). Seductive golden yellow color, smashing nose with walnuts, curry,a not unpleasant touch of rancid butter :-) and all possible aldehydic tones of a vin jaune. On the palate bone-dry, similar to a classy fino-Sherry with just a little more body. Bracing acidity and a finish of almost 60 sec. Slightly less complex and rich than a recently drunk Jaune from Stéphane Tissot la Mailloche from the same vintage, but it is a close call.

12/9/2021 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

A salty minerality to it. To the nose. And vivid on the palate. Briny, and lively. Its the Greco. No wonder it tastes different.

9/2/2019 - Erik R. wrote:

Lemon yellow. Shy lemon and almond and maybe some fennel. Grapefruit, and a sweet honey note. Young and round, low altitude and hence less smokey and structured than say a west side higher altitude like Ciro Picariello. Zesty acidity finish. plenty of fruit and acid to seemingly age well.

5/1/2021 - plinymajor Likes this wine:

1st of 6. Obviously very young at this stage. I opened it one day before consuming. Dark purple colour. Very pure and generous black/blue fruit (cassis, brambleberry, blackberry) in the nose, combined with some yoghurt and a vegetal streak. Mouth confirms this, ripe fruit but good freshness, a little vegetal, very tight and tannic, though enjoyable with food. Long long future ahead. I'm not opening the next bottle before 2025... At €15 very good qpr.

1/15/2021 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

Far too young, for my tastes, anyway. That said, and as most would expect from Vallana, this is seriously well made. A compact medium body at the moment, though I'm confident it will fill out some as it ages. Woodsy, herbal, and more soil than fruit driven just now. A 2oz glass I left uncovered overnight showed a tinge of oxidation, but it also allowed some of the underlying red fruit to emerge - even if just a little. This will be much more enjoyable in 4+ years, which is how long I'll be holding my remaining four bottles before taking another peek. I'll have to ask Francis Fogarty next time I see him, why he chose to go with a DIAM5 closure (vs, at least DIAM10) as, to my palate, this has another decade ahead of it, at least. HOLD. 13,0% abv., 2025-2035. Based on my feeling of its apogee, it's highly recommended+

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5/30/2020 - mukden wrote:

Candidate. But too hot but deep dark red; good bit of St Estephe tannins ; in time this could be quite good. Bit steep at 40 euro.

5/29/2020 - pepmi wrote:

We've entered the sixteenth wine region on our north to south tour of the Italian wine regions. My family came from Campagnia to America in the wave of Italian immigrants in the 20th Century. Taurasi, meaning roots, reflects the beginnings of this wine as well as that of my family.

Deep purple Aglianico in the glass. A nose of chocolate, blackberry and plum. In the mouth, notes of cedar, licorice and anise. Aglicanico reminds me of Zinfandel in its sweet, rustic earthiness.

What this wine lacks in elegance it more than makes up for in its vitality. Appreciate for what it is rather than what it is not.

3/15/2020 - Adam T 12 Likes this wine:

I would recommend holding this wine. It’s a bit disjointed right now, either I missed the drinking window or it hasn’t opened yet. I’m hoping it will be better in 2-3 years.

3/14/2020 - PT insurgent wrote:

Fairly oxidative style, ripe apple, ripe pear, bruised apple notes. Only 11.5% alcohol which is great, but acid isn't all that high which is interesting.

2/15/2020 - RussK wrote:

Russk. This was my favorite Xinomarvo from the Westside whiners nebbiolo tasting. Very well behaved. On day 3, femine, with a nice citrusly cut to it. Medium bodied. Just bought 3 more.

12/5/2019 - fitzi wrote:

Out of the bottle, lean and mean; nothing there but a thin curtain of drying tannins. A day later, the beginnings of fruit flavors & aromas on the mid-palate - tar, licorice ... the usual suspects - and a soupçon of finish; everything still rather thin and delicate for the appellation. If this wine continues to develop, it could offer a quite attractive bottle in a few years; if not, it's kind of a yawn. I lack the experience with Nebbiolo varietals to express an opinion about where it's heading.

Better with food than alone - no surprise there.

2/21/2019 - bushrandall Likes this wine:

Think Benny-G's was a bad bottle. This is sweet ripe fruit surrounded by pretty, grainy tannin. Rose, just-cooked cranberry, and blood orange. Think this'll age for at least five more years. Really good.

2/8/2018 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

P&p. Flowers, sour cherry, bread crust. Plenty of tart acidity. Tannins are noticeably grippy but certainly manageable. Texture is on the watery side. All about traditional character/typicity. Fairly straightforward, enjoyable for what it is. The floral notes are nice and expressive, gaining in depth and pungency over the course of a few hours.

Closure note: Diam 5 cork, somewhat surprising as I thought this wine could be cellared for a long time (update: some perspectives on this in the comments).

9/26/2017 - Motz wrote:

Dark in color, surprisingly so for Nebbiolo. Heady bouquet of naturally ripened fruits and berries, along with orange zest, muddled flower petals, potpourri, spices, and minerals. Strikingly dense attack, in every good way, featuring superb satin texture. The middle graces every part of the palate before profound tannins clamp down at the back. The gritty finish evokes the color crimson for a long, lingering while. The highest quality Barbaresco from the vintage that I recall tasting, and, the same producer's cru bottlings excepted, better than any 2011 too.

Why did Produttori del Barbaresco declassify their cru fruit in 2012? Who knows!? Thankfully, we have the distinct pleasure of benefitting from it. Likely to last for another two decades. 94-95.

Post Script:

I know the reasons given for declassifying the crus in this vintage, and in 2010, decisions for which I am deeply grateful. And, of course, I hope that Produttori declassifies forthcoming vintages. This aside, I have a few thoughts as to these declassifications.

I have tasted several underwhelming crus in recent vintages, one or two even nondescript. The somewhat angular 2008 Muncagota and Pora bottlings, for example, leave much to be desired, whereas the same vintage Montestefano shows like a Tuscan Sangiovese-Merlot blend. In 2009, the Pora came off as fairly straightforward (simple), and the Ovello showed like high quality Barbera, or slightly wonky Barolo. It seems that a house that boasts as many crus, and sources as much fruit from them, as PdB does, and that does not hesitate to declassify, would want to avoid producing cru bottlings like these.

Also, it seems that PdB declassified in the more moderate climate vintages and bottled the crus in hotter vintages, which might be interpreted as a marketing ploy for New World consumers, as hotter vintages typically show more fruit.

Again, only speculations, and certainly not complaints, as the 2010 and 2012 vintages rank very high in quality at very affordable prices.

1/31/2016 - plinymajor Likes this wine:

Fresh and deep lemon, buttery, yeast flavors and minerality. All you want from a nice bottle of white Burgundy. Stil going strong, this 2010.