Community Tasting Notes 15

• tomlee wrote: 93 points

  December 18, 2021 - Ruby red in color. 14.5% ABV. Sensational nose of red fruits, lavender, road tar and blood. Medium body with perfect acidity. The rusticity is very appealing. Dried cherries, iron, black licorice and blood orange on the palate. Exceptional length on the finish. Glorious Barolo that is just singing at twenty years of age. Best over the next 3-5 years.

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• Bob H wrote:

  November 5, 2021 - My last bottle of this, and second one that I've had in the last month. I had to doublecheck the label, as this came across as more reminiscent of the Giachini, with a nose of raisined fruit that is both powerful and feeling fully mature. Lighter-bodied on the palate, which is consistent with the body last month - I guess at 20 years of age, it's fair to expect a little bottle variation, and this is a good example of that.

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• Bob H wrote:

  April 16, 2021 - One of my last bottles from a case bought on release.
  
  Black cherry fruit on the nose, with a background note of tar.
  
  Lively on the palate - in fairness, the last bottle I tried of this didn't show nearly as well, so a little bottle variation here. Decent acidity framing ripe black & red fruit on the palate. I would place Corino's style in the modernist camp, but at 20 years of age, no noticeable wood at this point.

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• duchamp Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 27, 2021 - Deep garnet to deep tawny, dried fig, dried cherry, cinnamon, all-spice, and mushroom, on the first nose, followed by hints of cassis, blueberry, violets and menthol, mature dark fruit on the attack followed by spicy cherry, earth, umami, teethy tannins and moderate acidity, finishes long and strong with more earth, dried fruits, cherry, hazelnut, and lingering wood, black tea and Asian spices
  
  Note: you win some, loos some with mature Barolo, this one is a win some

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• VoVo Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 12, 2021 - This wine really needs time to open up, and the wait definitely pays off. It has incredible depth and great complexity of flavor—fruit, menthol, tar, tobacco, but no one flavor dominates. It is drinking beautifully and should continue to evolve over the next 2-3 years, so we pushed the drinking window out to 2024.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Giovanni Corino
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Vigneto Arborina
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo
• UPC Code 8032568280541

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