Community Tasting Notes 49

• Hugo Hilde wrote: 94 points

  October 15, 2023 - Top drawer Barolo (Tøyen, Oslo): Decanted 1 hours prior to dinner
  
  Super serious, for me, this felt too young still, 96 is such a stubborn vintage for top Barolo.
  
  Black cherries and citrus fruits, a faint whiff of alcohol, black pepper and green tea on the nose.
  
  The palate had great concentration with seamless dark fruits. Serious, though round, with a very long finish.
  Textbook Barolo from a super producer.

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• P.A. Cross wrote:

  November 25, 2022 - Clear, deep brickish red. Aromatic, with earthy mushroom, slight crushed fruit, and delectate tar. slightly fading in the mouth, with notes of herbs, licorice, and flowers. Seemed a little tired. Fun to drink but was outshone, surprisingly, by the 99 Gaja Barbaresco.

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• Derek Darth Taster wrote: flawed

  July 20, 2021 - 1996 Piedmont theme Lunch at Maison Dakota. Tasted blind. Drank in Conterno Sensory.
  Cloudy. Oxidized. Flawed. Game over.

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• baroloboy55-2.0 Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 26, 2021 - 1996 Aldo Conterno Bussia Soprana "Vigna Cicala"
  Conterno's Cicala has always been one of my favorite and most recognizable barolo vineyards, this bottle was no exception, my first 1996 that I can recall and a towering, profound effort. Lifted aromatics of rust inflected, dried rose petals and other red fruit tones (but the rusty red notes of Bussia, not those of the terroirs within Castiglione Falletto). Rich and round on the palate, with the forze of wines of Monforte, red clay soil notes and more of those rusty, irony notes that over time show darker earthy and even a hint of mushroom. Broad-shouldered given the site and the vintage but in great harmony and balance. I think into its peak of maturity, perhaps a tad more so than I would expect from the vintage, but I think has a great long future ahead of it. I show the back label to indicate that this was a bottle distributed in the European market and acquired stateside in abut 2008. Truly a monumental showing for this great vineyard and if I recall correctly some insinuation that Poderi Aldo Conterno perhaps flirted with modernity in the mid 1990s (and I offer that with hesitation), no evidence whatsoever of that. This is a Cicala for the ages!! [the above from my facebook Barbaresco and Barolo group posted -- I'd add that this was with about 2-3 hours of air time, and opened up pretty rapidly]

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• s******n Likes this wine: 91 points

  June 7, 2020 - Toll. Aber am Ende des Trinkfensters. Sandrone noch am besten.
  Bin aber weiterhin kein großer Fan von so alten Weinen.
  - Cicala: Noch eine schöne Säure.
  - Prod di Barbaresco: Nicht mehr viel da. Noch zweifellos trinkbar, aber für mich schon klar über dem Peak
  - Anne Gros: Interessanterweise ähnlich zum Cicala. Etwas feiner.
  - Sandrone: Hatte sogar noch Frucht. Große Länge.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Poderi Aldo Conterno
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Cicala
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• Consumed 312 (44%)

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