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• Italiana Likes this wine:

  July 21, 2013 - I smile whenever I recall the reason for the "Young Frankenstein" allusion. Teobaldo Cappellano was certainly one of a kind. As is this bottle--huge extract, high acidity, and very cherry fruit. Certainly atypical and very enjoyable.

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• hennlund wrote:

  July 7, 2009 - Have opened 6 of these before - one has been brilliant and five have been undrinkable. This one was like the first; a wonderful wine - warm, but obvious cherry and cherrystones, very "juicy", fresh taste with excellent acids and tannins.

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• hennlund wrote:

  March 28, 2009 - The second of these bottles, not as good as the one drunk a few weeks ago - lacked some of the mouthfilling, warm fruit of the prevoius one, and had a peculiar taste that reminded me about DMSO. It tasted almost like the previous bottle did on day two. Strange. Can the bottle have been slightly flawed? Too much sulfur? Still a pretty nice wine, though, and it directs the thoughts more in the direction of southern France than Italy.

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• hennlund wrote:

  March 5, 2009 - A "once off" Barbera, in spite of its Vino da Tavola classification. Amazing compared to any other Barbera I have tasted. Intense, strong deep nose, a hint of nuts, dark mature red berries, bitter almonds. Full body with a taste that delivers the promises the nose brings - soft and round and intense with well balanced acids. Very long, juicy and pleasing finish.

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• Manjari wrote: 90 points

  February 25, 2009 - This is a one time only Barbera from Cappellano. Certainly Ab Normal, and what a wine this is. Full bodied barbera, loads of red berries, spice and integrated oak. Consentrated, intence, fresh cherry acidity and spicy oak with a looong finish. I have tasted about 10 bottles of this vintage, and it seems that they have put quite a bit of sulphur in it before bottling. Probably due to the extreme temperatures this year. So my advice for anybody who is planning on opening a bottle, is to decant it well in advance. That has helped most of the bottles I have tried anyway.

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• Vintage 2003
• Type Red
• Producer Cappellano
• Varietal Barbera
• Designation AB Normal
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Vino da Tavola

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• In Cellars 3 (17%)
• Consumed 15 (83%)

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