Community Tasting Notes 54

• NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 29, 2024 - More structured and a little younger than 2001, showing deeper color, some pure red berries, darker notes too of tar, some graphite, spices and balsamic notes, also some cedar wood again. It‘s medium-full bodied, deep and with very good persistence, it has high acidity and some pretty high tannin showing good quality. Very good length. Excellent. This is a very good Montestefano and in the vertical of 12 vintages was the best of the older wines. This still has many years ahead.

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• Torchy wrote: 92 points

  September 5, 2023 - From magnum. Dark red with browning towards the edge. Nose with hints of tar, floral, cherry and licorice. The palate has angular fruit, pepper, cherry, and licorice. Ripe, but the wine still has some structure left.

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  April 25, 2023 - The fruit is sourced from the Montestefano vineyard. Released only after a minimum of four years of aging. Bottle #5709 of total 11853 bottles. Lot number L8.156. 14% alcohol.
  
  Luminous and moderately translucent cherry-red color. The nose feels ope, dark-toned and somewhat sweetly-fruited with quite intense aromas of ripe black cherries, some jammy black raspberry tones, a little bit of juicy red plum, light perfumed notes of violets and crushed rose petals, a hint of wild strawberry and a touch of licorice root. The wine feels ripe, juicy and silky yet firm on the palate with a moderately full body and quite savory flavors of sour cherries and crunchy cranberries, some gamey notes of meat, a little bit of gravelly minerality, light nuanced of old leather, a hint of tart lingonberry and a sweeter touch of ripe red berries. The overall feel is pretty structured and sinewy with its high acidity and still rather grippy and quite unresolved tannins. The finish is long, dry and rather grippy with a quite intense aftertaste of wild strawberries and sour cherries, some rough gravelly mineral tones, a little bit of tart lingonberry, light licorice root nuances and a hint of old leather.
  
  A fine, quite stern and still pretty youthful PdB Riserva that shows quite a bit of power and intensity, but surprisingly little development and resolution. Even though the wine is almost 20 years old, its flavor profile is still relatively youthful with surprisingly little tertiary complexity, and the tannic structure still remains pretty unyielding, although not excessively so for a wine of this caliber. With some aeration, this wine is perfectly enjoyable right now, but knowing how these PdB Riservas age, this is a mere baby. I'd let the wine age for another decade or two. Good stuff, but more about aging potential than immediate charm. Expect the score to go up as the wine ages.

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• Mika78 Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 25, 2022 - Wine color is brick red showing the age. Nose of black tar & dark cherries, violets. Texture is smooth and typical Nebbiolo lively acidity supporting the wine well. Tannins are smooth and refined. Taste is dark foggy mountains of Nebbiolo with tar, leather saddle, violets and red rose bushes. Awesome dark theme going here! 93 pts.

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• bradfriedlander Likes this wine: 85 points

  November 26, 2022 - Expected a bit more at this price point. Still really good with food. A lot of flavor left to blend with dinner. Medium finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Produttori del Barbaresco
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation Riserva
• Vineyard Montestefano
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco
• UPC Code 665529001572

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