Community Tasting Note

Not647f wrote:

Sunday, May 3, 2015 - Took to a very nice restaurant with a menu that promised to match well. We opted for the veal T-bone and gnocchi. We could have bought the 2001 Cicala at the restaurant for over $300, so the corkage for this slightly older and slightly more prestigious wine, from a slightly less vaunted vintage, was a no-brainer. (Note, if it had been the SAME wine I would not bring to the restaurant. That's bad etiquette.) I have heard the 2000s will not be as long lived, so 15 seemed like a good age to crack this. And while it might last, I cannot see how it can get a whole lot better. Opened clean, fresh, great nose of the usual tar and roses, not too lean but taut with acid, and absolutely polished tannins. (Part of the reason I wouldn't wait forever if you still have some.) Over night it rounded out a bit, gained gentle spice of cinnamon and vanilla, which Robert Conterno assured me is not oak aging but part of nebbiolo. (Glad that his cousin's estate provided the proof this time, but I've had strongly cinnamon-like G. Conterno, too.) Finish was gorgeous, ethereal and light but persistent, like a dream that lingers out of reach. Waxing poetic? Guilty, but this wine earned it.

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