Community Tasting Notes 40

• Wine Canuck wrote: 94 points

  April 22, 2024 - [Tasted Double Blind] This pours light garnet in the glass. The nose is just awesome and soaring of rose petals, eucalyptus, brown sugar, dried ginger, cherry, beetroot, amaro, potpourri, and red cherry. Quite beautiful. On the palate this shows some structure with medium tannin and medium plus acid. The finish is moderate in length replaying much of the nose. In the end I foolishly guessed this as a very low extract and very old California Cabernet. Some old Cali cabs I've had have an aromatic profile that matches the amaro and eucalyptus notes I got here. But I should have known that even the lowest extract Cali cabs aren't this light in color, yet this high in tannin. Just haven't had quite enough Nebbiolo of this age to nail this blind. Lovely wine that I enjoyed thoroughly an almost got to 95 on.

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• Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 9, 2024 - Just a tiny bit of fruit left. Silky smooth and mostly tertiary notes of mushroom, spices, and wet forest floor. This bottle was definitely past its peak, but there was still enough here for some enjoyment.

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• evjoh wrote:

  January 21, 2024 - This bottle was sound and surprisingly full of life. Smelling it immediately transported me to a damp late-fall forest. There wasn't much other than tertiaries, though. The crazy thing about Nebbiolo is that this wine doesn't feel dead at all; the structure is of an at-peak wine but the fruit probably faded 5-10 years ago. It makes me wonder if this wine would've either been better a decade ago, or if the aromatics and structure were never going to mature at the same time.

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• jamesabdavis wrote:

  December 31, 2023 - Lovely earthy and floral nose. Really fresh. Loads of herbal complexity.
  Rich full-bodied on the palate, lovely velvety texture.
  Gorgeous.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  October 31, 2020 - So my initial inclination was this must have been refinished because almost from opening the wine was bright and vibrant and ready for action. It's flower petals and light fruits and if you'd served it to me blind there's no way I'm getting anywhere near the age. Looking at some of the comments it's possible that that is just what this wine is since it seems to be a similar experience with others. Drinking really well. Glad we have another bottle. Doesn't always happen, but when these old barolos still have a lot of that life they can be really special.

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• Vintage 1967
• Type Red
• Producer Francesco Rinaldi e Figli
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• Pending Delivery 5 (2%)
• In Cellars 116 (51%)
• Consumed 105 (46%)

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