Community Tasting Notes 14

• Rezy13 wrote: flawed

  February 28, 2015 - Open That Bottle Night 2015 (Duluth, GA): Initially very similar to previous note but with more air I realized this was slightly corked.

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• Rezy13 Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 29, 2014 - Dark core with larger plum rim; coffee, chocolate, boysenberry, vanilla, cooked dark fruit, plummy, some floral qualities; soft texture, sour red fruit in the middle with raspberry, plum, fresher, Mediterranean in style; tasty and very drinkable.

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• millerarner wrote: 87 points

  July 8, 2014 - Agree almost entirely with the note from Stefanakiko, accept that I'll go with his wife's score, due to this being quite drinkable. But as mentioned, it lacks any varietal marker, and other than the hint of something S. France, it really lacks a personality. Did go well with traditional lasagna however.

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• StefanAkiko wrote: 85 points

  May 3, 2014 - Paid the Japanese price premium for this one. It came out polished, with absolutely no edges, no personality, easy-drinking and . . . bland.
  
  Young fruit on the nose, towards violets and Southern France.
  In the mouth this has M++ acids to marry all things with tomatoes. The tannins are just like the rest of this wine: Charming, but without personality. Almost as if this wine was a J-pop or K-pop star... Beautiful label, but not much contents...
  (I still have no clue about HOW to identify Barbera in a blind tasting.)
  Wife: 87p (for drinkability)
  At local La Verdura with kohai running the restaurant for the GW-week.

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• Dale M wrote: 86 points

  November 1, 2013 - Pop and pour, perhaps this suffered from travel shock as it was just delivered a day ago. Little in the way of aroma, pleasant enough to drink, bitter cherry and earth, but lacking anything distinctive. This was only $14 so, expectations were low on price point, but I was hoping for a little more given the Altare name.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Elio Altare
• Varietal Barbera
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Alba
• Appellation Barbera d'Alba

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• Pending Delivery 4 (3%)
• In Cellars 44 (33%)
• Consumed 85 (64%)

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