Community Tasting Notes 301

• CWilliam wrote: 93 points

  March 18, 2024 - This wine has aged beautifully. Enjoyed at a steakhouse for my son's 16th birthday. I purchase this in 2013 at a local Kroger store for $31.00.
  
  I did not take notes given the venue, but Andrew Will's note on the nose/palate sounds right. Fruit was beautiful with no oxidation but the secondary characteristics are there now (leather/menthol/tobacco). 93-94

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• AndrewWill Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 2, 2024 - Took about an hour for the nose on this to really open up. Cherry, raspberry, orange peel, black licorice, and wet asphalt, all coasting slightly above a floor of aging cedar and leather.
  
  Palate boasts sweet raspberry, kirsch, baking spice, and lingers with fresh red fruit. Offers some great mid-palate umami often showing in wines this age.
  
  I don’t drink a lot of Barbaresco, which I’m trying to change. But this doesn’t strike me as anywhere near over the hill. Not sure it’ll improve further, but should be good to go for several more years.

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• Saxman1984 wrote:

  December 25, 2023 - I recently drank the 2012 and thought it was in a better place than the 2008 majestic 2008 still has grippy tannins, but it smelled magically of dark cherry, rose, and smoke. A complex wine, that was enjoyed from a magnum for Christmas Eve dinner. Don’t get me wrong, the 2008 is a great wine, just as the 2012. They just are in different places.

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• northpolewine wrote: 93 points

  December 23, 2023 - Nydelig velutviklet vin. Svart te, nypete, roser og røde bær i en svært ekstrovert nese. God fylde, fin balanse mellom frukt og tanniner. Trist å si det, men jeg synes standardvinen utvikler seg mye bedre enn de fleste av riservaene, ihvertfall i de årganger jeg hittil har sammenliknet (04, 06 og 08). Det riservaene er harde, trange og tanniske blir denne veldig pen, fruktig og drikkevennlig, men beholder spenst og kompleksitet. Hvorfor trist da? jo fordi jeg har hamstret mye riserva, og har bare noen få av disse....

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• Dj6544 wrote:

  December 15, 2023 - Totally maderised. Yuk!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Produttori del Barbaresco
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco
• UPC Codes 665529000049, 665529000155, 665529002289, 665529004016, 8025022005194, 8809333020097, 918820462871

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• Pending Delivery 14 (0%)
• In Cellars 1,750 (43%)
• Consumed 2,265 (56%)

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