Community Tasting Notes 8

• wirelesswine wrote:

  December 10, 2023 - A little spritzy on the palate - strange. Slightest oxidative notes from bottle age. Nice wine but this bottle didn't bowl me over.

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• redders Likes this wine: 87 points

  November 29, 2023 - Fresh herbal zing with character. Improving still. Lovely

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• wirelesswine wrote: 92 points

  March 13, 2021 - This is a serious white with various citrus, and made interesting with slightest hints of savory and lots of minerality and structure.

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• benny-g wrote: 87 points

  January 25, 2021 - Pineapple! I've seldom had a wine that may so easily be characterised by one particular fruit. Nose and palate are completely dominated by pineapple 🍍. Unfortunately it's certainly not my favourite fruit, so this is not my favourite white wine. The balance is towards sweet and concentration is very good. Acidity and perfumed aromatics do make this enjoyable. The aftertaste stresses the aforementioned fruit. This is a decent wine, but, honestly, my rating is suffering from the fact that I tasted some very nice and better whites recently.
  Maybe the best characterisation is that it is reminiscent of the pineapple variety of the Napoleon sweets, which to me was an unnecessary variation to the lemon 🍋 sweets of the same brand.

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• Jochems Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 8, 2020 - Quest to complete my tasting of all DOCG of Italy; 6/5/2020-8/31/2020 (Home in NL and holiday home in Maremma / Italy): Pale light yellow with some green-ish hue. Bright and fresh aromas of citrus and grapefruit with a slight hint of jasmin and some pepper. Very fresh an lively on the palate with a great acidity balance and some spicy zing to it. Perhaps slightly lean but very persistent in its flavour profile from the initial aroma’s to the long finish.
  
  My initial thought was: this smells like summer! Interestingly this wine matched quite well with a vegetable curry we had. I would have expected it to pale in combination with the spice-attack. But it gave and excitingly spicy-fresh support to the dish.
  But we also greatly enjoyed it without any food.
  
  I’m not a big white wine fan but a DOCG-discovery adventure that I’ve stepped into has nog given me a few highly enjoyable white wine experiences. Including this one and the Grecco di Tufo and Pecorino I recently had.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type White
• Producer Giovanni Almondo
• Varietal Arneis
• Designation Bricco delle Ciliegie
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Alba
• Appellation Roero
• UPC Code 7726172290416

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• Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
• In Cellars 76 (21%)
• Consumed 291 (79%)

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