Community Tasting Notes 15

• bramwessel wrote:

  December 31, 2023 - OK, Produttori and Barbaresco character. Deep leather and tar beneath black, black cherry fruit. Tea and smoked spices. Leather! Super deep. Black and brown salty licorice. But minerality and soil. Just profound Barbaresco in a great window.

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  April 25, 2023 - The fruit is sourced from the Rio Sordo vineyard. Released only after a minimum of four years of aging. Bottle #10,795 of total 11,740 bottles. Lot number L0.167. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Deep, dark and still relatively youthful black cherry color with a faint, slightly evolved pomegranate hue towards the pale rim. The nose feels sweetish, somewhat tertiary and quite complex with aromas of wizened cherries, some beef jerky, a little bit of tar, light smoky tones, hints of dried flowers and potpourri and a mushroomy touch of dried chanterelle. The wine feels evolved, firm yet silky in texture and quite dry on the palate with a medium body and layered flavors of wizened sour cherries, some ripe red plums, a little bit of beef jerky, light smoky notes, a hint of tart lingonberry and a touch of tar. The overall feel is quite structured and sinewy, thanks to the high acidity and still quite grippy, over-steeped tea-like tannins. The finish is dry, quite grippy and somewhat evolved with a rather lengthy aftertaste of sour cherries, some tart red plums, light evolved notes of beef jerky and a little bit of smoke, a hint of farmhouse funk and a touch of tar.
  
  A very nice, sophisticated and still surprisingly tightly-knit vintage of PdB's Rio Sordo. Aromatically the wine is starting to feel somewhat tertiary, but definitely not too old; instead structurally the wine shows relatively little resolution. I probably wouldn't age this wine for an extended period of time, since the fruit department is starting to feel like the wine is now at its plateau of maturity, but since I suspect the wine is not going to fall apart anytime soon, some additional aging might help in softening those tannins - although I doubt a few years are not going to do much if anything. Drink or keep - and be prepared to have something with this wine, just to tame some of that stern structure. Highly recommended.

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• Eric Wright Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 22, 2023 - A wonderful surprise. Deep color with no bricking. Tannins well integrated. Bright fruit for the age. No port notes. Everything well balanced and elegant. Barbaresco this old is a gamble and this one was winning ticket.

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• palbe Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 20, 2021 - Dried berries, tea, herbs. Careful, delicate and to me, rather alluring. Classic PdB.

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• acyso wrote: 93 points

  April 25, 2017 - The Rotating Dinners, I.9: Produttori Normale (Chicago, IL): #10776. Served blind (but known to be a Produttori). Between the two blinds, this was definitely the better of the two, in that it had more concentration and density, as well as some sweeter fruit on the palate. I had guessed this was around 15-20 years old, with the eye of including 2000 in the range. Given that this seemed fairly ripe in the context of all the wines tonight, I also guessed that this was a southern cru.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Produttori del Barbaresco
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Rio Sordo
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco

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• In Cellars 112 (70%)
• Consumed 48 (30%)

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