Community Tasting Note

Gregory Dal Piaz wrote:

Monday, January 24, 2022 - Aromas of rosewood, tar, and dried rosepetals greet the nose. Fairly aromatic for a pop and pour with simmering reed cherry fruit lurking below.

Round, almost plump still with firm tannins underpinning lots of red cherry fruit, big volume on the backend and through the long finish. A bit indistinct, and to be clear I am drinking the dregs here, but this has lots of fruit left, lots of tannins, a fine mouth feel, modest complexity and little nuance but rather intense, rustic, and valid expression on Nebbiolo.

At the 4 hour mark this remains a bit reticent on the nose with stone and soil notes dominating what gentle burnt cherry fruit there is. Rather smooth and rich on entry, a powerful little bugger, tightly knit, still tannic but with a minty tone on the long fruity buy indistinct finish. Lovely tannins though. Dense with good minty cough medicine cherry fruit that emerges on the backend and powers the finish. This could improve with time, but like the Echezeaux, I think this is better consumed over the next 5 years while the fruit is still intact, tannins be damned. I don’t think there’s enough substance here for magic to happen.

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