Community Tasting Note

Pancreatitis wrote:

Sunday, August 6, 2017 - 2nd of a dozen (1st showed well recently after 12 hours slow ox).
Was taking this to a friend's for dinner so double decanted at midday. Tasted terrible at 12. Tasted terrible at 4. Tasted terrible at 6. No discernible flaw, not oxidised, simply tasted very old like sweaty socks.
We drank something else in the end and my friend insisted I bring it home.
Now pouring a glass at 9pm an amazing transformation. Heady perfume of dark cherries, animale, some medicinal notes, quite complex and ethereal. Full bodied sweet/sapid palate still with lively acidity and plenty of tannin, cola, blood orange, chinotto, gingerbread, really quite vibrant and long.
Once again, I have to reflect that I think many of these older bottles of Barolo get dismissed as over the hill with insufficient oxygenation, several hours slow ox reveals their hidden secrets.

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