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Community Tasting Notes 23
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docwong3 Likes this wine: 96 points
December 30, 2022 - beautiful color, nose
Tasted fresh balanced and food friendly
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dchain Likes this wine: 94 points
October 19, 2022 - Wow- so young looking (guess late 80s vintage), very floral immediately on the nose with a heady strawberry and rose perfumed nose with a touch of uplifting dry herbs. Wonderful acidic lift making it so fresh and energising. Dry red fruits, cranberry with a kiss of balsamic vigour but it is all is such wonderful balance. Orange peel on the finish. It didn't get better in the glass and did start fading a bit after 60 minutes but why wait so long to drink this aging beauty! Fantastic and WOTN beating the Monfortino Reserva Speciale 1971 by quite some margin...
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trumpet60201 Likes this wine: 94 points
May 29, 2021 - Agree with Rlove's note. Also noticed some lovely strawberry scents and flavors. This was still incredible and has life left. I didn't decant, but it got better and more interesting with air - no fading at all (we drank the whole bottle within 2 hours of opening). Great stuff.
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rlove wrote: 92 points
July 5, 2020 - Bricking ruby. Impressively youthful nose, even for someone such as myself who always seeks freshness in wine, with a pretty bouquet of cherry, dried rose, camphor, and smoke. Medium bodied with an extant but elegant tannic structure and bright acidity carrying flavors of sour cherry and iron. Excellent persistence. Giacomo Conterno's 1971 Barolo, pre-Cascina Francia, has a decade-plus to go.
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Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 93 points
April 25, 2020 - The nose is beautiful and expressive with dried dark red fruit, tar, earth, and smoke. The palate is lush with sweet, dried red fruit, some volatile acidity, earth, and a touch of balsamic, with the tannins fully resolved - a nice finish and depth remains given the age. It is a very enjoyable wine, but at least in this bottle, there is too much VA on the palate for it to be a great one.
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By John Gilman
Nov/Dec 2018, Issue #78, Serving Up Some Stellar, Under the Radar 1971 Baroli and Barbaresci(Barolo- Giacomo Conterno (Monforte d’Alba)) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
La Festa del Barolo: Rare Wine Charity Dinner (Jul 2013) (link)(Giacomo Conterno Barolo) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Sep/Oct 2010, Issue #29, Handicapping the 1958, 1964 and 1971 Vintages in Barolo and Barbaresco- Patience in Piemonte Has Such Fine Rewards(Barolo- Giacomo Conterno) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
Haiti Charity Dinner (Jun 2010), 6/1/2010 (link)(Giacomo Conterno Barolo) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
9th Annual Wine Dinner and Auction to Benefit The Mount Sinai Hospital (Feb 2012) (link)(Giacomo Conterno Barolo) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Sep/Oct 2008, Issue #17, Cantine Giacomo Conterno: Piemonte Pillar of Excellence and Tradition(Barolo- Giacomo Conterno) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
First Annual Nebbiolo and White Truffle Charity Dinner (Nov 2007) (link)(Giacomo Conterno Barolo) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1971
- Type Red
- Producer Giacomo Conterno
- Varietal Nebbiolo
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Italy
- Region Piedmont
- SubRegion Langhe
- Appellation Barolo
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
- In Cellars 209 (74%)
- Consumed 72 (25%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- Wine1971 Giacomo Conterno Barolo (add)
- FamilyGiacomo Conterno Barolo (add)
- ProducerGiacomo Conterno
- VarietalNebbiolo
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo