Community Tasting Notes 18

• Musinus wrote: 90 points

  April 2, 2024 - Dark ruby with suggestion of garnet. Nose initially smells like iron filings covered in dried blood. Offputting or fascinating? With time, the blood aromas settle in and nuances of garam masala, cherry, mint, violets and blueberry emerge. Mature flavor profile of grilled cherry and leather. Thinning. Drink up.

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• Burgundy Al wrote: flawed

  March 27, 2024 - Keith's Italian Wine Dinner (Osteria Langhe - Chicago IL): So much great fruit here, but there seems to be a touch of VA and also a touch of brett, but still 90 point wine despite those problems.

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• Musinus wrote: flawed

  September 27, 2023 - Dark ruby beauty expresses geraniums, candied strawberries, fresh leather, and a hint of rich pipe tobacco. Alas, the palate has weakened sigificantly, offering mostly astringency and a sweet but neutralized red fruit compote. So promising to the nose, but disappointing in the mouth. Within hour a taste of mold is apparent. Perhaps a corked bottle.

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• BSal58 Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 28, 2023 - It is in a great spot and drinking beautifully. Bright fruit and acidity. It went well with the ribeye steak. The nose for me was light with tar and chocolate. The body was extremely smooth. Don't think it could get any better.

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• Gregory Dal Piaz wrote: 94 points

  September 19, 2021 - Closed on the nose, dusty, earthy, some sweet caramel, lots of jammy cherry fruits lurking here. Licorice and a hint of iron. Hint of cinnamon and cardamom spice. Fresh on entry, bright quite vivid with reticent fruit, incipient velvetines, fine tannins drive a long, mineral soaked finish. Not bad even with the cloudy tannins of the dregs of the decanted bottle. Looks promising for tonight. Delicious, right at the cusp of youthful maturity. 93
  
  After 4 hours
  
  Still not there on the nose, a bit on the modest side revealing dusty clay, crushed raspberry, peppery green spice and incipient notes of tobacco and leather. Opening up in the mouth, lively, lovely red fruit, long and driven, dusty white earth laced throughout, Delicate and refined, such a lovely wine with super fine grained tannins lending grip from start to finish. I should have headed my own note and kept my hands off for at least another year, but today I would say another 3 are in order.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Vietti
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Villero
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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• In Cellars 356 (68%)
• Consumed 169 (32%)

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