Community Tasting Notes 25

• pjhr wrote: flawed

  January 7, 2024 - Still enjoyable, but past its prime.

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• pjhr wrote: flawed

  August 6, 2023 - Still enjoyable, but past its prime.

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• ciaovito Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 14, 2023 - Tasted alongside a '99 Brezza Bricco Sarmassa. This was in fine shape with a lighter color, more elegant fruit and a fantastic saline quality on the finish. This was fantastic from the get go and developed into a very compact and linear wine. A small touch of wood in the mid palate. Still many years left to go on this bottle if I had the same one in my cellar, I would try again in 3 years.

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• Bluespolo wrote: 96 points

  October 23, 2021 - Dopo un paio di decenni abbondanti dalla vendemmia stupisce ancora per questo modo di essere largo e muscoloso senza apparire, e soprattutto senza perdere finezza. Naso complesso ed estremamente invitante di prugna e frutti di bosco dolci. Viola carnosa, spezie, cacao amaro, liquirizia. Al palato perfettamente maturo con tannini torniti a bilanciate una struttura esuberante ma sempre controllata anche grazie alla freschezza invitante. Finale molto molto lungo. Valeva la pena attendere. Aperto quasi tre ore prima di servirlo, comunque aperto ed invitante fin dal primo assaggio.

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• Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 9, 2021 - The '99 Casa Mate is a very enjoyable wine and may be nearing peak. It offered the flavor profile I expect out of this vineyard from Elio Grasso, just with a bit less concentration and complexity than the wines being produced there today. On the nose, I found black fruit, sweet spices, menthol, and licorice. On the palate, the wine was medium in body with good acidity, and tannin still lingering at the back end but on their way to becoming well integrated. I found black fruit, sweet spices, black tea, and tobacco on the palate. The wine was nicely expressive and a pleasure to drink - a wine that outperformed at the table vs. what the score or this note probably conveys.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Elio Grasso
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Ginestra Casa Maté
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• In Cellars 59 (45%)
• Consumed 71 (55%)

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