2010 Barolo (Terra Rossa, N1): Quite tight at the moment, lots of vanilla, slightly woody and dry. More of a bruiser than the lithe, aromatic style which tends to appeal to me. Pulpy fruit on the palate feels outweighed by the fiery tannins and high acidity. I'd question whether those elements are going to resolve and find balance before the fruit wears off but in any case, it's one to sit on for a while.
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Litt plomme, men det er mest krydder på duft - fint integrerte fataromaer. Noe gjøre også. I munnen er tanninene definitivt merkbare - de begynner å bli nedslepne og rundere, men tydelig bitterhet i ettersmaken. God å drikke nå, også aleine, men trenger noen år til for å bli helt harmonisk.
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Drank from decanter over 2 hours. Hard to tell where this is because it developed significantly in a short time. Started out very shy but very accessible after an hour. Expansive nose but felt a bit shallow on palate — lofty promise of 2010 not reached but really enjoyable bottle. Would not bet on long term future.
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This wine remains in its infancy. Lovely cool-fruited nose, but hard as nails and blocked with burly tannin. Black licorice and cherry menthol fruit peeks out. But even with a 3.5 hour decant, the wine opens only partially. A baby. Big wine. Leave for another 5-10 years in the cellar.
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Decanted for half an hour, and drank over 2 hours. Moderate extract, not overdo, and with some nice red fruit. Moderate tannins and acid. Nice nose, enjoyable wine. May continue to improve for another 5 years?
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heading for 92 now. Opened 10 hours before drinking. Was much more expansive with perfumed nose this time. Really very elegant, dark berries, tar and tobacco notes. Fine acidity. Bright and clean. Will wait some while before trying again.
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Generous from the start with some secondary aromas such as leather, tar, and dried dark roses. Also fruit towards the darker spectrum with mature cherries and raspberries. The nose grows with air and time and comes across as pretty youthful after all and only with the slightest of hints of some maturity. I found it to be very true to the house style so pretty straightforward and tipping towards elegance and energy rather than muscles and power. The palate follow the same pattern, good acidity and fine grippy tannins provides a light but vibrant structure. Traditional and very pure and direct, I think the 10's really going to come out great from Fenocchio. My first bottle Bussia '10 and I will probably wait 5-10 until the next one. It drinks superbly already but if you're waiting for some serious development my guess is you'd have to hold for another 10.
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Light ruby, browning. Really needed a decant and air. Gets into somewhere decent, some black fruits but mostly cherry and cherry liqueur. Tobacco. Medicinal herbs. Slightly drying tannins. I suspect (and hope) that this just needs more time.
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Good forward fruit, but a little acidic and lacking in substance.
Also. There was brick colour in my bottle, suggesting that the wine from this vintage may be on its way out. If you have a lot of these wines in your cellar, I'd check them out.
A really pleasant, old-fashioned Bussia at this price. Tart, sappy red cherry, mineral, and medicinal herbs, a la cherry cough drop. Was quite potent over two days, though lacked a ton of support on the finish, which at times felt hollow. Young, but open enough today and good with food. Less complexity than you might expect from a cru Barolo, but good energy and potential.
Opened with a bouquet of roses and red fruits but pallate was thin and sharp. 2 hour ox and vigorous decant brought it to life, fleshed it out and the body and colour flooded back in. From there it just got better! Lovely floral bussia with integrated tannins and a lithe body with a medium long finish. Sticky black tea molasses and sour cherries. Good price value for a 2010- not world beating but far better than the 2016 Gevrey Chambertin we had 3 nights ago and about 60% of the price!
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My first of 4 bottles, acquired through a friend several years ago. Decanted at 5:30pm and tasted over several, hours. This showed quite nicely at the 10-ish year old mark. It has a lot of mushroom, tar and cherry on the nose and palate, maybe a hint of truffle and rose petals. Nicely balanced yet not extraordinary in any dimension. I thoroughly enjoyed this with grilled NY strip steaks. There are some less complementary reviews of this wine but I thought it demonstrated pretty straightforward Nebbiolo typicity.
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Super Bowl Sunday blind tasting. Was very disappointed with this bottle based on the other CT reviews; hoping my other bottle shows better. However, it was a good wine for blind tasting as it exhibited a number of characteristics that should point you to a Nebbiolo with age. Ruby core quickly moved to a bronze rim with meaningful bricking. Upon opening, there was a good amount of VA that took hours to blow off, evolving into a strong gasoline smell. Dried red fruit and a dried red-purple floral bouquet. Medium body, high tannin and medium+ acid.
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Really nice! First since initial tasting in 2014. No longer brash and tannic, but still youthful and fresh. As it opens reveals layers of cherry and earth tones. This is great now but I think ideal drinking window will be 2024-29. 93+ potential.
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Very fine Bussia. Decanted for a short period before serving, could have done with an extra 30 mins or so but it showed very well. Refined cherry and layers of spice, chewy tannins just starting to integrate. Still plenty of gas in the tank for this bottle, will get even better in the short term
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First time opening this wine after tasting it at the winery in 2014. Went in on these with one of the tasters below who had less patience! Broke it out with wine biz friends who are fairly new to Nebbiolo--all work in California. This was very young, will greatly improve, but with the 5 hour decant it was pretty great. I'll spread out the three remaining bottles, but this wine will outlive me, so we'll just have to drink them a little before peak.
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Drank alongside the 2013 rendition of this wine and everyone preferred the 2010. This was decanted for two hours in advance. Thin, light color, but perfect for Nebbiolo . The aromas are really quite pretty, like a refined thanksgiving day cranberry sauce, with tar covered roses on top. Very elegant and pretty; lithe high toned powdery perlite and berries. Really love the nose. Palate shows medium to thin body (not the greatest texture); but certainly traditional. Flavors are similar to the nose and quite clean, and tannins do begin to build quickly, so small sips are in order. Finish is mostly all structure with firm, medium grip tannins that coat the mouth. The lingering flavors are cranberry seed. Really quite tight on the finish. Everything is in place, though, and based on drinking old Barolo, I bet the stuff from the 1960s was like this on release; this feels much like that in body and texture but it doesn't yet have the tertiary development of its fruit and structure, but it's all in balance... it's just super old school and tight as nails. Don't plan to touch another bottle for 20 years.
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What strikes me about this wine is how deep and rich the red cherry flavors are. Almost like a red cherry cough drop. Tannins were powerful day one, but very rounded by day three. Would be interested to see it when it develops more complexity.
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This nose certainly take some time to open up but it is truly worth the wait even if it stays low key and careful. The red fruit is amazingly fresh and complemented by licorice, eucalyptus and some hints of wood glue and tobacco.
On the palate the fruit takes a rather laid back role and instead the acidity is the lead character with an almost perfect precision. The tannins are also amazing with a silky texture and showing grip without getting dominant or dry. After a while the fruit takes a step forward and show fresh raspberries and some slight cherry notes.
A truly fantastic 2010 Barolo with perfect acidity and tannins.
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Opened on Wednesday and poured off a small glass, recorked and put back in cellar for Friday night. This needed every bit of the air it got. I knew this was young when I opened it, but it's painfully young at this point. Great with the air it got, beautiful nose, bracing acidity and overall balance. Don't open for 10 more years.
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Shows a compressed but bright nose of sour (red) cherry and cranberry with just a hint of oak shavings. Elegant, medium viscosity on the attack, with good medium to medium plus freshness. The sour cherry, cranberry impressions repeat on the palate, elevated by good and powerful, mouth coating tannins, which are relatively friendly (not so harsh), with good supporting spice and mineral effects. The finish sails on for the better part of a minute, again showing good power and balance. No bottle prep here, just pulled from my 55 degree staging fridge, opened, and poured. First of a case, this drinks similar to a 2010 red Burgundy.
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Beautiful, glowingly and quite transparent blood orange pulp colour with tints of red purple in the middle and transparent edges this young.
The nose emerges as very closed and reticent, even after several hours of airing. However, I notice dark cherries, distinct wood glue, lavender, eucalyptus, tiny notes of leather, some tobacco, balsamic fur tree, earthy minerals. The day after there is a noble perfume accompanied by dried violets. It is a pretty and complex nose, but very subtle, analytic and reticent at this stage.
The gnarly acidity really needs hours of airing now, but then and especially the day after, it emerges as a very deep and absolutely seamless with ripe, relatively soft and chewy tannins. The palate offers cool, pure dark cherries, black peppers, licorice-root, spices, shale stone, thyme and some tobacco.
It is a little backward, very demanding and not a thrilling barolo at this stage, but after spending two days with it, we are convinced that it conceals a very complex, mystic and deeply layered barolo that may just evolve into something truly great with impeccable precision, but you need to give it a lot of time. Wait until 2025 is our guess.
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Facile à boire, tanins bien intégrés mais manque un peu de personnalité. Style moins en puissance que le Barbaresco 2011 de Bruno Rocca. Très agréable, mais manque un peu de fonds et de complexité.
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2/7/2024 - Jamieson12o Likes this wine: 90 Points
2010 Barolos at Terra Rossa with NLWTS (Terra Rossa, Upper Street): Ruby. Pretty fruit forward. On the stewed fruit spectrum? Sweet, pretty generous nose, but quite hot on the palate. Bit disappointing for me; bit bruising. Benefit of the doubt - NYR? 90
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2/7/2024 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 89 Points
2010 Barolo (Terra Rossa, N1): Quite tight at the moment, lots of vanilla, slightly woody and dry. More of a bruiser than the lithe, aromatic style which tends to appeal to me. Pulpy fruit on the palate feels outweighed by the fiery tannins and high acidity. I'd question whether those elements are going to resolve and find balance before the fruit wears off but in any case, it's one to sit on for a while.
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1/5/2024 - daghaug Likes this wine:
Litt plomme, men det er mest krydder på duft - fint integrerte fataromaer. Noe gjøre også. I munnen er tanninene definitivt merkbare - de begynner å bli nedslepne og rundere, men tydelig bitterhet i ettersmaken. God å drikke nå, også aleine, men trenger noen år til for å bli helt harmonisk.
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11/6/2023 - varun01 wrote: 91 Points
Drank from decanter over 2 hours. Hard to tell where this is because it developed significantly in a short time. Started out very shy but very accessible after an hour. Expansive nose but felt a bit shallow on palate — lofty promise of 2010 not reached but really enjoyable bottle. Would not bet on long term future.
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10/3/2023 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Quite a deep colour; rich, ripe fruit, elegant, well balanced and quite long. This seems just about ready but will keep well. A fine example.
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8/12/2023 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
PnP that, in retrospect, was opened far too soon. Should have read my prior note before opening. HOLD. For its full potential, it's highly recommended
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6/6/2023 - Blair Curtis wrote: 92 Points
This wine remains in its infancy. Lovely cool-fruited nose, but hard as nails and blocked with burly tannin. Black licorice and cherry menthol fruit peeks out. But even with a 3.5 hour decant, the wine opens only partially. A baby. Big wine. Leave for another 5-10 years in the cellar.
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6/5/2023 - psi Likes this wine: 93 Points
Hitting a mature plateau. Hedonistic.
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11/26/2022 - SWHighlander Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for half an hour, and drank over 2 hours. Moderate extract, not overdo, and with some nice red fruit. Moderate tannins and acid. Nice nose, enjoyable wine. May continue to improve for another 5 years?
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11/5/2022 - Finare Vinare wrote: 93 Points
Decanted for half an hour. Aromatically expressive and moderately developed, with elegant fruit and rounded tannins. Very enjoyable at this stage!
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11/4/2022 - cannym Likes this wine: 91 Points
heading for 92 now. Opened 10 hours before drinking. Was much more expansive with perfumed nose this time. Really very elegant, dark berries, tar and tobacco notes. Fine acidity. Bright and clean. Will wait some while before trying again.
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8/7/2022 - JohanPe wrote: 92 Points
Generous from the start with some secondary aromas such as leather, tar, and dried dark roses. Also fruit towards the darker spectrum with mature cherries and raspberries. The nose grows with air and time and comes across as pretty youthful after all and only with the slightest of hints of some maturity. I found it to be very true to the house style so pretty straightforward and tipping towards elegance and energy rather than muscles and power.
The palate follow the same pattern, good acidity and fine grippy tannins provides a light but vibrant structure. Traditional and very pure and direct, I think the 10's really going to come out great from Fenocchio.
My first bottle Bussia '10 and I will probably wait 5-10 until the next one. It drinks superbly already but if you're waiting for some serious development my guess is you'd have to hold for another 10.
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8/7/2022 - cannym Likes this wine: 90 Points
Light ruby, browning. Really needed a decant and air. Gets into somewhere decent, some black fruits but mostly cherry and cherry liqueur. Tobacco. Medicinal herbs. Slightly drying tannins. I suspect (and hope) that this just needs more time.
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5/21/2022 - maxmanx wrote:
Decanted one bottle and PnP the others. Really enjoyed this and ready to go even with PnP. Not a lot of tar, but still a very enjoyable Barolo.
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3/27/2022 - vide wrote: 91 Points
Good forward fruit, but a little acidic and lacking in substance.
Also. There was brick colour in my bottle, suggesting that the wine from this vintage may be on its way out. If you have a lot of these wines in your cellar, I'd check them out.
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10/22/2021 - ex-sommelier Likes this wine:
A really pleasant, old-fashioned Bussia at this price. Tart, sappy red cherry, mineral, and medicinal herbs, a la cherry cough drop. Was quite potent over two days, though lacked a ton of support on the finish, which at times felt hollow. Young, but open enough today and good with food. Less complexity than you might expect from a cru Barolo, but good energy and potential.
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3/10/2021 - ShakinSwedens Likes this wine:
Opened with a bouquet of roses and red fruits but pallate was thin and sharp. 2 hour ox and vigorous decant brought it to life, fleshed it out and the body and colour flooded back in. From there it just got better! Lovely floral bussia with integrated tannins and a lithe body with a medium long finish. Sticky black tea molasses and sour cherries. Good price value for a 2010- not world beating but far better than the 2016 Gevrey Chambertin we had 3 nights ago and about 60% of the price!
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2/13/2021 - oldwines Likes this wine: 94 Points
My first of 4 bottles, acquired through a friend several years ago. Decanted at 5:30pm and tasted over several, hours. This showed quite nicely at the 10-ish year old mark. It has a lot of mushroom, tar and cherry on the nose and palate, maybe a hint of truffle and rose petals. Nicely balanced yet not extraordinary in any dimension. I thoroughly enjoyed this with grilled NY strip steaks. There are some less complementary reviews of this wine but I thought it demonstrated pretty straightforward Nebbiolo typicity.
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2/8/2021 - jondrinkswine Does not like this wine: 86 Points
Super Bowl Sunday blind tasting. Was very disappointed with this bottle based on the other CT reviews; hoping my other bottle shows better. However, it was a good wine for blind tasting as it exhibited a number of characteristics that should point you to a Nebbiolo with age. Ruby core quickly moved to a bronze rim with meaningful bricking. Upon opening, there was a good amount of VA that took hours to blow off, evolving into a strong gasoline smell. Dried red fruit and a dried red-purple floral bouquet. Medium body, high tannin and medium+ acid.
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4/10/2020 - Burglover13 wrote: 92 Points
Really nice! First since initial tasting in 2014. No longer brash and tannic, but still youthful and fresh. As it opens reveals layers of cherry and earth tones. This is great now but I think ideal drinking window will be 2024-29. 93+ potential.
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3/25/2020 - AndyDobson93 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Very fine Bussia. Decanted for a short period before serving, could have done with an extra 30 mins or so but it showed very well. Refined cherry and layers of spice, chewy tannins just starting to integrate. Still plenty of gas in the tank for this bottle, will get even better in the short term
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2/22/2020 - vinhslee Likes this wine: 95 Points
Amazing depth of flavours. Wonderful layers of red cherries, strawberries, rose pedals, a hint of tar and smoke. Good QPR.
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12/26/2019 - Vertigo wrote: 91 Points
Cherry, strawberries, roses, oranges, medium+ tannins, medium+ acidity. Still young and fresh. Still many years left.
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12/1/2018 - Not647f wrote:
First time opening this wine after tasting it at the winery in 2014. Went in on these with one of the tasters below who had less patience! Broke it out with wine biz friends who are fairly new to Nebbiolo--all work in California. This was very young, will greatly improve, but with the 5 hour decant it was pretty great. I'll spread out the three remaining bottles, but this wine will outlive me, so we'll just have to drink them a little before peak.
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9/20/2017 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 92 Points
Drank alongside the 2013 rendition of this wine and everyone preferred the 2010. This was decanted for two hours in advance. Thin, light color, but perfect for Nebbiolo . The aromas are really quite pretty, like a refined thanksgiving day cranberry sauce, with tar covered roses on top. Very elegant and pretty; lithe high toned powdery perlite and berries. Really love the nose. Palate shows medium to thin body (not the greatest texture); but certainly traditional. Flavors are similar to the nose and quite clean, and tannins do begin to build quickly, so small sips are in order. Finish is mostly all structure with firm, medium grip tannins that coat the mouth. The lingering flavors are cranberry seed. Really quite tight on the finish. Everything is in place, though, and based on drinking old Barolo, I bet the stuff from the 1960s was like this on release; this feels much like that in body and texture but it doesn't yet have the tertiary development of its fruit and structure, but it's all in balance... it's just super old school and tight as nails. Don't plan to touch another bottle for 20 years.
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4/25/2017 - Sixchips600 Likes this wine: 92 Points
What strikes me about this wine is how deep and rich the red cherry flavors are. Almost like a red cherry cough drop. Tannins were powerful day one, but very rounded by day three. Would be interested to see it when it develops more complexity.
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4/17/2016 - miadelt Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decanted < 1hour; it needed much more time to open up. Very good and may be better.
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2/14/2016 - mwieth Likes this wine:
Tobak, læder, tjære. Og efter en times tid også en anelse frugt. Den bliver stor, men jeg vil vente tre år med de næste.
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11/15/2015 - Ultimatewinekick_Andreas wrote: 95 Points
This nose certainly take some time to open up but it is truly worth the wait even if it stays low key and careful. The red fruit is amazingly fresh and complemented by licorice, eucalyptus and some hints of wood glue and tobacco.
On the palate the fruit takes a rather laid back role and instead the acidity is the lead character with an almost perfect precision. The tannins are also amazing with a silky texture and showing grip without getting dominant or dry. After a while the fruit takes a step forward and show fresh raspberries and some slight cherry notes.
A truly fantastic 2010 Barolo with perfect acidity and tannins.
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4/10/2015 - Fugu Me Likes this wine:
Opened on Wednesday and poured off a small glass, recorked and put back in cellar for Friday night. This needed every bit of the air it got. I knew this was young when I opened it, but it's painfully young at this point. Great with the air it got, beautiful nose, bracing acidity and overall balance. Don't open for 10 more years.
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4/5/2015 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine: 93 Points
Shows a compressed but bright nose of sour (red) cherry and cranberry with just a hint of oak shavings. Elegant, medium viscosity on the attack, with good medium to medium plus freshness. The sour cherry, cranberry impressions repeat on the palate, elevated by good and powerful, mouth coating tannins, which are relatively friendly (not so harsh), with good supporting spice and mineral effects. The finish sails on for the better part of a minute, again showing good power and balance. No bottle prep here, just pulled from my 55 degree staging fridge, opened, and poured. First of a case, this drinks similar to a 2010 red Burgundy.
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4/3/2015 - Sir Galahad Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful, glowingly and quite transparent blood orange pulp colour with tints of red purple in the middle and transparent edges this young.
The nose emerges as very closed and reticent, even after several hours of airing. However, I notice dark cherries, distinct wood glue, lavender, eucalyptus, tiny notes of leather, some tobacco, balsamic fur tree, earthy minerals. The day after there is a noble perfume accompanied by dried violets. It is a pretty and complex nose, but very subtle, analytic and reticent at this stage.
The gnarly acidity really needs hours of airing now, but then and especially the day after, it emerges as a very deep and absolutely seamless with ripe, relatively soft and chewy tannins. The palate offers cool, pure dark cherries, black peppers, licorice-root, spices, shale stone, thyme and some tobacco.
It is a little backward, very demanding and not a thrilling barolo at this stage, but after spending two days with it, we are convinced that it conceals a very complex, mystic and deeply layered barolo that may just evolve into something truly great with impeccable precision, but you need to give it a lot of time. Wait until 2025 is our guess.
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3/15/2015 - Jeanda wrote: 88 Points
Facile à boire, tanins bien intégrés mais manque un peu de personnalité. Style moins en puissance que le Barbaresco 2011 de Bruno Rocca. Très agréable, mais manque un peu de fonds et de complexité.
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2/14/2015 - Sixchips600 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Less aromatic than the Villero with a richer core of fruit. Balanced and deep and enjoyable to drink but a bit closed.
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11/26/2014 - Astemio wrote: 91 Points
Great but still child!
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