Community Tasting Notes 18

• drwine2001 wrote:

  January 31, 2024 - A Taste of Serralunga Dinner-La Festa del Barolo 2024 (Locanda Verde, New York): Deepest saturation of these wines. Medium+ weight. Serious, deeply imbued flavors of tobacco and dark fruit. Soil extends from the start to finish. Wonderful feel and flow. The tannins are substantial but refined, giving this big wine early approachability. Outstanding and deeply impressive.

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• Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 29, 2023 - The ‘15 Arione was impressive again, but it is really tight right now so it’s hard to peg the exact quality level at maturity. This is the tightest bottle I’ve yet tasted, but I’ve had this wine a few times since 2020 and consistently found it pretty closed off. This is a dark, dense, powerful wine that impresses most today for its texture, combining concentration and finesse.
  
  On the nose, I found dark red to black cherry and plum fruit, tar, dark red floral tones, black tea, and fresh herbs. With air, I found hints of balsamic and sweet spices as well. On the palate, the wine is explosive, medium to full in body, and very tight right now with dark red cherry and plum fruit, licorice, tar, and black tea / herbal tea notes emerging on the finish. I found this wine as well as the ‘17 Arione to exhibit a very dark flavor profile with some interesting herbal notes, and those were really apparent here on the finish. The wine is most impressive for its texture, super concentrated but with almost no perception of tannin.

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• Papies wrote: 91 points

  October 21, 2023 - Annual Pilgrimage to Piedmont - 2023 Edition; 10/20/2023-10/22/2023 (Piedmont, Italy): A top end wine from a top vintage yes but ever so young now and we had no time to decant. Was just punchy rich and ever so buttoned down too as this really needs another 10 years to hit its stride. Nothing if to fault it and the fruit had that rich young feel across of a great vintage and for sure we could see the potential. Just at this stage the wine is a mere glimpse of what can happen given time to age. 91 for now but unfair to it to open it now.

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• Devlon Moore Likes this wine:

  June 11, 2023 - I liked it because it told me I was a fool to open it. It was so closed and blocky and giving so little except steely acid and tannin. For the love of wine keep this corked for at least another 3 to 5 years. Don’t open it and try to decant it for 6 hours or two days. It won’t do anything. Only time can reveal this flower. Hold.

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• merlotsmile wrote:

  November 4, 2022 - Enomania

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Giacomo Conterno
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Arione
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• Pending Delivery 19 (2%)
• In Cellars 791 (84%)
• Consumed 129 (14%)

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