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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  February 19, 2023 - This was a Troglia bottling. Classic old school Barolo. Tar and roses greet the nose along with some truffle and Indian spice development. It has plenty of balsamic punching all sorts of savoury nuance up into the nostrils. The palate is heady, has power and chewy fruits flavours. Tannins are relatively relaxed and acidity still brisk. Gets better and better with air and a joy to drink.

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• sharonandroland Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 26, 2020 - Funky.

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• RajivAyyangar wrote: 93 points

  February 13, 2019 - Dinner at Ashish's (Millbrae): Dark medium minus garnet to an orange rim. Nose is slightly burnt toast-y - almost reductive like the 72 Musar!
  
  Intense almost oily weight to this. Perfumed. A pronounced apple-soy-leather-leaves note - tertiary development. Crystalline and lustrous aroma! Slight meatiness. Prosciutto. Beautiful ghost of cherry. Long and evolving finish.
  
  Medium plus polished and melted tannins. High acid but super well integrated. Feels 14%.

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• aagrawal wrote:

  February 13, 2019 - Dinner at Home (Millbrae, CA): Troglia bottling. Wax was very hard and difficult to remove without softening under a flame. Cork removed (mostly) with the Durand and was soaked through and fragmented at the bottom. Stood up for 3 months and decanted off the clear top of the bottle and left ~2 oz in the bottom. Clear light ruby; nose has high intensity aromatics with tar, black cherry, slight soy, truffles; palate is light bodied, high acid, definitely a lot of savory soy, fruit is gone for now, tannins still present; finish is a bit thin and medium length. For such an old bottle it's showing well now even on the nose, though I'm hoping it will open up a bit more and that the palate will flesh out with an extended decant.
  9 hours decanted in a narrow base decanter (Jancis Robinson's old wine decanter). Nose is largely similar with integrated black cherry, tar, soy. Palate has indeed fleshed out a substantial amount with more red cherry fruit, slight rose, still prominent tannin (not surprising), very high acid. This is an excellent fully mature barolo, but still with probably a lot of time left. Enjoyable, if short of profound like some top aged barolos can be.
  Day 2: Last 2 oz never decanted, left in bottle for 30 hours and filtered through a coffee filter. Surprisingly clear after filtering (tons of sediment was left behind). Nose is more black fruited, still aromatic, overall a bit better integrated but not significantly different; palate is much richer, integrated tannins (still high and present but a bit plusher), still has plenty of soy and balsamic. At least as good if not better than yesterday, and worlds better than when first opened (and it was super light and shrill on the palate). This is lovely, top tier Barolo.

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• Vintage 1975
• Type Red
• Producer Cappellano
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo

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