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2004 Elio Grasso Barolo Gavarini Chiniera
Nebbiolo
- Italy
- Piedmont
- Langhe
- Barolo
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Community Tasting Notes 39
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NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 95 points
April 14, 2024 - Another excellent bottle of this. Beautifully layered, deep and complex, with nice freshness and overall balance. I love it.
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aagrawal wrote: 90 points
February 27, 2024 - Dinner with the wine group (Sole Ristorante, San Mateo): Stood up for weeks, decanted off 2oz fine sediment. Light-medium ruby with significant bricking as expected for nebbiolo at this age; moderately aromatic, black cherry, tamari, maybe slight vanilla?; palate is medium bodied, black cherry, high acidity throughout, a bit oxidative when first out of the bottle; medium length finish, slightly tart. Good balance, but nothing special yet. Perhaps with some air? 90 for now.
Definitely opened up with a few hours of double decanting, but still overall darker and richer than I expected for Barolo.
Day 2: Still richer-styled, but well balanced. 90-91 -
mxpbuy Likes this wine: 94 points
September 1, 2023 - 90 minute decant. About a teaspoon of sediment. Color very strong and only the earliest signs of bricking. Lovely black cherry fruit, some dried herbs, faint touch of Oak. Very smooth, approaching silky. This bottle would have been great for then next 5 years.
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sleepyhaus wrote:
June 12, 2023 - Drank this at a wine dinner amongst many excellent wines, and this held its own quite nicely. Flavors are maturing but still backed by firm tannin and acidity. Probably not a vintage for extreme aging, but drinking quite well now.
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dalondra Likes this wine: 93 points
April 15, 2023 - Very mature, brick red , soft tannins, classical tar and roses, long finish. An aristocratic wine
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By Richard Jennings
12/1/2010 (link) 92 points(Elio Grasso Barolo Gavarini Chiniera) Medium dark red color; appealing, dried berry, dried cranberry, charcoal, chocolate nose; tasty, dried berry, chocolate palate; medium-plus finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2004
- Type Red
- Producer Elio Grasso
- Varietal Nebbiolo
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Gavarini Chiniera
- Country Italy
- Region Piedmont
- SubRegion Langhe
- Appellation Barolo
- UPC Code 836543000265
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 320 (53%)
- Consumed 281 (47%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- FamilyElio Grasso Barolo Gavarini Chiniera
- ProducerElio Grasso
- VarietyNebbiolo
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo
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- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo