2015 Vietti Barolo Castiglione
Community Tasting Note
Lehto Likes this wine:
Sunday, October 22, 2023 - Drank this over 3 days. Day 1 was straight pop-and-pour about 2-3 glasses, cork back in and left on the counter. Day 2 was just pouring one small glass and corking it again and back on the counter. Day 3 was drinking the last 2-3 glasses.
On Day 1 the wine was extremely rough, rustic and powerful. Very grippy and, for my personal taste, unpleasant tannins that really attacked the gums. Very, very dark fruits, dirt, tar, leather, smoke and black pepper.
On Day 2 it felt like the tannins had resolved a bit and it had given way to a bit more elegant fruit, and the dark cherry, strawberry, blackberry and chokeberry started showing. But overall the same notes and feeling as Day 1 was still very much there.
Day 3 resembled Day 2 quite a bit. Didn't seem like the tannins had resolved any more and it was still a very masculine, rustic and powerful Barolo.
For me this definitely needs many more years in the cellar.
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