Community Tasting Notes 8

• CHINACAT wrote: 90 points

  January 9, 2017 - Ripe dark fruits, slightly faded, some pleasant earthiness, soft tannins, moderate acidity. This is still holding up, but probably past its prime. (From a Coravin.)

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• bill00 wrote: flawed

  June 15, 2014 - Oxidized

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• Lype Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 8, 2013 - Mineral fruit, tobacco fruit, surprisingly ripe, bitter and sour notes.

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• avp wrote:

  January 4, 2013 - At first some rather nice floral notes on the nose, lilacs and lavender. Ripe aromas of stone fruits, figs and strawberries, stone dust, tobacco and salt liquorice.
  Fullbodied and quite refreshing palatal feel with chewy bite, dusty touch and ripe fruit notes. Leather, salt liquorice and chocolate. Lengthy finish.
  Rather nice. A bit monolithic and riper than ideal.

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• Thomas D. Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 13, 2012 - Borgogno is always a hard sparring partner, whereas normal conservative made Barolo is so nice when aged for all this years, but Borgogno?
  N-o-t Borgogno!
  Okay, they have build a nice sun teracce on top of their building recently (being bought by an investor?) in the middle of Barolo village, new meeting place for the rich and beautiful, lovely place...
  
  But this place is not like a Borgogno Barolo tastes like :)
  
  These is a masculine, self-confident, old style Barolo, hurray!
  Nose: (as always) wet dog hair, saddle leather but also Borgogno not so typical notes: lovage (well it's 88), violet, drying red roses, plums
  Taste: balanced(aristocratic, as we call it In Europe = that is what 20+ years can do to a good Barolo - do not drink old fashioned Barolo young!), cherrys, good acid balance.
  ... still years to go but will not get better...
  PS: this is a bottle that is bought from a German collector and kept in a climated cellar, colour is fresh and red...as you can see in other tasting notes, wrong Storage can destroy wines.
  Guys (and girls): great stuff! Go for it, keep it in your cellar, for years, and enjoy!
  My girlfriend annotates: dark berries, rust, blood, "fun in it" "lovin' it"
  
  The wine drops rapidly after half an hour on the air, nobody can drink it that fast :) 92 --> 89

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1988
• Type Red
• Producer Giacomo Borgogno & Figli
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barolo
• UPC Code 8003807000244

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• In Cellars 22 (54%)
• Consumed 19 (46%)

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