Community Tasting Note

Eating is Cheating wrote:

Sunday, August 30, 2015 - Decanted an hour or so. A maturing dark-brick-red colour: dark core, russet edges. An initially closed nose eventually opens to give signature Nebbiolo notes of black cherry, tar and aniseed overlaid with something floral. But this example is quite mature - tertiary aromas compete with the primary fruit. Not entirely appealing, at least not to me - and I wonder has this been corked. Nice on the palate: medium-bodied but with a display of secondary fruit flavours. Very dry. Tannins are resolved at this stage. Slightly hot on the finish. Some length but had hoped for more. Overall I would say this was probably only ever a solid, rather than stellar, Barolo which, to be fair to it, may have been slightly betrayed by its storage conditions over the years. Based on this showing, I'm not disappointed that I don't have any more bottles.

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