November 17, 2023 - Winetasting Burgundy vintages 2002 and 2005 (13 bottles): This half blind tasting focused on "middle class" Burgundy mainly from 2002 and 2005. Overall conclusion: All vintages are still performing well. Vintage 2002 is charming, easy to drink, still good concentration, rounded tannins. 2005 is dark, has more alcohol, higher tannins, more acidity, very good balance.
This wine: The tasting's outsider. Medium tawny(!) color. Still lots of aromas but tertiary: Farmyard, prune, leather, tobacco but also a little strawberry. On the palate: High acidity, tannins, alcohol, full body, medium+ intensity and long finish. Much too much farmyard for me (too old) - rating based on my personal taste.
March 12, 2022 - After two bad bottles in 2015 we came across this lovely magnum that we had to try.
The wine needs decanting as there is a lot of fine sediment and one definitely needs to take care here. The cork in our case was brittle and needed a bit of care. The wine though was very much alive and handle well the 2 hr double decant. We did worry if it would be fragile to handle it but it handled it very well. The wine is pretty and well evolved, with earthy notes, good fruit and a touch an iron feel. Lacks magic though and only scores a solid 91 from us.
June 27, 2021 - Stunning. Floral, spice, feminine, but amazing acidity still present
January 26, 2021 - Cherry and raspberry and licorice; layered and complex; youthful; sweet cherry-earthy finish.
January 21, 2020 - Over the top, oxidiced
May 25, 2019 - decanted it for 6 hours prior to drinking. Tons of sediment. It was a fantastic wine full bodied, long pleasant finish. Extremely well balanced. I wish i had more of this vintage but fortunately many other vintages
January 13, 2019 - What a tremendous performance from the 1990 Bric del Fiasc, with a gorgeous bouquet and perfectly in its prime drinking window. Here I found a dark and seductive display, showing plums soaked in liquor, spiced black cherries, balsamic tones, dusty dried roses, and hints of sweet tobacco. On the palate, soft, silky textures paved the way for tart cherry with an acid twang leading to notes of sweet and savory herbs, wood spice, dark chocolate, and hints of sweet residual tannin. The finish was long, dark and spicy, as lingering dried cherry and plum mixed with clove, cinnamon and saline-minerals.
Over the course of the evening, the nose picked up a dusty, crushed stone minerality with notes of forest floor, rosy florals and licorice, as the fruit on the palate tightened up with more tactile and tart notes of cherry.
WOW, I wish this experience could just go on and on and on.
It pays to mention that this bottle's fill was amazing and the cork was in impeccable condition. It was opened at 2pm, double decanted using slow-o with sediment removed for three hours.
September 27, 2017 - 1990 Barolo and Barbaresco Retrospective II (The North End Grill): The ‘90 Bric del Fiasc provided a fantastic start to our tasting, being one of the first times that I’ve tasted this wine and found the development of more tertiary aromas and flavors. The nose was gorgeous, displaying crushed fall leaves, tar and undergrowth up front, as notes of black cherry, brown sugar and a hint of iodine developed in the glass. On the palate, I found silky textures offset by zesty acidity with mineral-drenched tart cherry fruit that saturated the senses. It finished long on dark red fruits, undergrowth and iron-borne minerality.
September 4, 2016 - A day 2 glass; dark translucent ruby in the glass (almost opaque at the core). Ripe to overripe black & red fruits, with a pruny note that comes & goes.
More black-fruited than red on the palate - this really spreads out on the palate, and still displays adequate acidity. I like this, and would describe it as a fully mature wine from a warm vintage. I don't think you need to drink up, but if you still have more than a couple in the cellar, probably worth taking one out for a test drive to see where it's at.
March 27, 2016 - 1990 Baroli and others: Double decant then five hours air. Evolved colour but deeper and brighter red than the Giacosa. A much more primary, dark fruited nose than the Giacosa. More dark cherry, and blackberry, than red cherry. A little musk and a hint of violets, not roses. No discernible oak artefact on bouquet or palate. On palate, drinking younger. Very spherical, integrated and smooth. Opulent, ripe and rich, again showing the hot 1990 vintage, but in a different way. The oak seems consumed and integrated with the fruit. Ultra fine grained tannins. On the attack it's dark fruited, with a hint of fruit sweetness. But on the back end it does show some development with a little tar, earth and balsamico. Tons of muscle and structure (below the sleek surface). Drinking the same the next day. No hurry to drink this Scavino.