cherry-tea colour. light rim. garnet reflexes. nose: light and fragrant; dried roses, violets, rose petals, black cherries; some forest bedding. taste: medium (+) acidity; high tannins volume, integrated, elegant, very lively; some umami notes, tobacco, mushrooms, asphalt plus this beautiful black cherry fruit - still present; long, elegant, delightful. The best Barbaresco so far for me.
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Cellaraid - Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Vertical; 5/15/2020-5/24/2020 (Delivered to Home): Medium garnet core with fading brownish edges, and pretty viscous. Aromas of roses, cranberry, mint, some paprika and cocoa. While tannins feel rather resolved, it still provides a pretty good bite on the gums, as well as rather big on the flavour intensity, of roses, dried cranberry, paprika, tar, and coffee grounds. The florals and earthiness remained quite a bit, and finish was rather long. Nice!
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Zoom blind tasting #3: Guiseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabaja vertical (At home): I liked this, even if it did show a bit obviously hotter and riper than the other wines on show. The nose was so attractive, with dark cherries and red berries infused with a lovely earthy, spicy character, and then just edged with little bits of dried flowers and little sprigs of herb. What beautiful aromas. I could smell this all day. It was lovely on the palate too - very poised and polished, with a robe well-integrated acidity and fine, but still very firm Nebbiolo tannins wrapped around a slinky core of ripe, sweet red cherries and berries, with that lovely infusion of warm spice and dried earth again, maybe with a hint of savoury meatiness in there this time, all drawing towards a fresh, open finish - with satisfying chew of cherry skin and just that last kiss of floral petals, before those fine tannins reasserted themselves again with a firm grip. A very elegantly styled 2003 Baberesco, like the others in this vertical of Rabaja from Cortese, but this was also one of the deeper wines in the set, showing a touch more depth than most of the other wines on show. The only issue were the rather more drying, astringent 2003 tannins. That aside though, tt was already quite enjoyable with a bit of food on the night, and should continue to age decently for many years yet. I would love to try it in say 2025-2030 and beyond
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- Brick color and aromas of tobacco, bacon, mushroom, sherry and violet. It's unbalanced with a medium body. Flabby texture with a medium finish - Over the hill, disjointed and earthy, little fruit. Could tell that is a wine from a good vineyard by a capable producer but maybe a bad year or just too old.
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Needs loads of air...pale garnet colour, aromas of preserved cherries, dried flowers, touch of tobacco and classic tar along with pine resin. On the palate medium body, medium + acidity and very grippy tannins, even on day 2...no fruit at all on the palate,sapid, with an unusual minty character. Not sure I liked it. I don't think this will go an extra 10/15 years as suggested in previous review, this is mainly due to the lack of flavour on the palate. If you have these drink them and keep hold of the 2005s.
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Incredibly fresh right now, this is hitting all the right buttons: balance, early-mid maturity, lovely floral and sweet fruit notes, even some engaging tertiary aromas. The palate offers the same type of energy, freshness, the fruits was no time declaring more breadth and depth. Fascinating weight and textures, and a finish the takes its time building, prolonging the sapid finish. Elegant, and really tasty just now, with another 10-15 years of great drinking yet ahead. Really nice. highly recommended
Delightful floral aroma with tobacco touches. On the palate, shows imbalance with reasonable acidity and poor development of the fruit. In a way it is expected that this season was very hot. I do not like much this kind of evolution. It's a little better than the Bordeaux 2003 I drank.
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Medium ruby red with translucent hues, supple and elegant nose of sour cherry, fruits, wood and spice. The palate is soft and elegant but carry good structure and gives a polished mouthfeel. Long powerful finish with chewy tannins. This is a pleasant surprise for today's tasting.
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Está num ponto bem legal da evolução, apresentando alguns terciários, apesar de ainda ter um bom chão pela frente. Foi duplamente decantado e servido 4h depois. Apresentou um floralzinho discreto, cereja suja de terra, shitake, e o final de alcatrão.
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Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Verticals (Sydney, Australia): Menthol, cinnamon and cherry. Palate is heavily tannic still and is quite rough around the edges. Don't think it will improve considerably with time but I could be wrong.
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14% alc...some oxidation on the nose, browning at the rim...the nose is beautifully earthy, ripe - almost raisined fruit, brown sugar, leather, very floral and extremely expressive straight out of the bottle...medium bodied, good structure and tannin, lush fruit, great acidity, long finish. Quite nice, love the wine.
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Medium red ruby in the glass with aromas of Plum, anise and with a underlying layer of musky, forest floor. On the palate, sour cherries, prune and hint of citrus. Very fresh at first that turns to an earthy, minerally finish which comes off as a little drying with rough tannin. I'm assuming that the initial richness of this Barbaresco followed by the let down of a finish is the result of the hot vintage. Although I don't see myself drinking this five years down the road, it still makes for an enjoyable glass of wine today, accompanied by a plate of pasta with red sauce.
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Claret coloured core of medium depth and reasonable brightness. Somewhat raisiny / burnt nose. Again on the palate the warm year shows and the tannins are chunky, slightly bitter and drying, though there is fair length to the finish. A decent wine but not the profile I seek.
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8/8/2021 - acheng wrote: 89 Points
Fully mature and no need to wait
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5/8/2021 - Jeffyboy Likes this wine: 96 Points
cherry-tea colour. light rim. garnet reflexes. nose: light and fragrant; dried roses, violets, rose petals, black cherries; some forest bedding. taste: medium (+) acidity; high tannins volume, integrated, elegant, very lively; some umami notes, tobacco, mushrooms, asphalt plus this beautiful black cherry fruit - still present; long, elegant, delightful. The best Barbaresco so far for me.
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5/18/2020 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 92 Points
Cellaraid - Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Vertical; 5/15/2020-5/24/2020 (Delivered to Home): Medium garnet core with fading brownish edges, and pretty viscous. Aromas of roses, cranberry, mint, some paprika and cocoa. While tannins feel rather resolved, it still provides a pretty good bite on the gums, as well as rather big on the flavour intensity, of roses, dried cranberry, paprika, tar, and coffee grounds. The florals and earthiness remained quite a bit, and finish was rather long. Nice!
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5/10/2020 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Zoom blind tasting #3: Guiseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabaja vertical (At home): I liked this, even if it did show a bit obviously hotter and riper than the other wines on show. The nose was so attractive, with dark cherries and red berries infused with a lovely earthy, spicy character, and then just edged with little bits of dried flowers and little sprigs of herb. What beautiful aromas. I could smell this all day. It was lovely on the palate too - very poised and polished, with a robe well-integrated acidity and fine, but still very firm Nebbiolo tannins wrapped around a slinky core of ripe, sweet red cherries and berries, with that lovely infusion of warm spice and dried earth again, maybe with a hint of savoury meatiness in there this time, all drawing towards a fresh, open finish - with satisfying chew of cherry skin and just that last kiss of floral petals, before those fine tannins reasserted themselves again with a firm grip. A very elegantly styled 2003 Baberesco, like the others in this vertical of Rabaja from Cortese, but this was also one of the deeper wines in the set, showing a touch more depth than most of the other wines on show. The only issue were the rather more drying, astringent 2003 tannins. That aside though, tt was already quite enjoyable with a bit of food on the night, and should continue to age decently for many years yet. I would love to try it in say 2025-2030 and beyond
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5/8/2020 - ekirby wrote: 86 Points
- Brick color and aromas of tobacco, bacon, mushroom, sherry and violet. It's unbalanced with a medium body. Flabby texture with a medium finish - Over the hill, disjointed and earthy, little fruit. Could tell that is a wine from a good vineyard by a capable producer but maybe a bad year or just too old.
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4/4/2018 - wiskytango Likes this wine:
Fully Mature. I enjoyed it very much. Paid $37 and would do so again.
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8/22/2017 - assofisso wrote: 88 Points
Needs loads of air...pale garnet colour, aromas of preserved cherries, dried flowers, touch of tobacco and classic tar along with pine resin.
On the palate medium body, medium + acidity and very grippy tannins, even on day 2...no fruit at all on the palate,sapid, with an unusual minty character. Not sure I liked it.
I don't think this will go an extra 10/15 years as suggested in previous review, this is mainly due to the lack of flavour on the palate.
If you have these drink them and keep hold of the 2005s.
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8/10/2017 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
Incredibly fresh right now, this is hitting all the right buttons: balance, early-mid maturity, lovely floral and sweet fruit notes, even some engaging tertiary aromas. The palate offers the same type of energy, freshness, the fruits was no time declaring more breadth and depth. Fascinating weight and textures, and a finish the takes its time building, prolonging the sapid finish. Elegant, and really tasty just now, with another 10-15 years of great drinking yet ahead. Really nice. highly recommended
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8/5/2017 - bhel Likes this wine: 90 Points
God frugt
Ikke så lang eftersmag
Afrundet taniner 8 år gl
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7/28/2016 - LWI wrote: 89 Points
BYO Blind Tasting: Blind. Some pine tree; quite lot of tannin and acidity, rather structured. A success considering the vintage.
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12/29/2014 - LFCHALA wrote: 89 Points
Delightful floral aroma with tobacco touches. On the palate, shows imbalance with reasonable acidity and poor development of the fruit. In a way it is expected that this season was very hot. I do not like much this kind of evolution. It's a little better than the Bordeaux 2003 I drank.
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11/12/2014 - Yagil wrote: 91 Points
Giuseppe Cortese winery visit (Barbaresco): transparent red-brown, tertiary fruity-earthy cherry aroma, med-full bodied, grip tannins, savoury flavours, light spices, complex & elegant, ready to enjoy. Pleasnt med length finish.
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9/7/2014 - admid wrote:
Vingruppen Winefair (Solsiden, Oslo): Too old, tasted more or less like tomato soup with some tannins.
If you have some bottles in the cellar I would start to find oportunities to drink
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8/18/2013 - hkm520240 wrote: 91 Points
Medium ruby red with translucent hues, supple and elegant nose of sour cherry, fruits, wood and spice.
The palate is soft and elegant but carry good structure and gives a polished mouthfeel.
Long powerful finish with chewy tannins. This is a pleasant surprise for today's tasting.
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4/7/2013 - Magno Likes this wine: 90 Points
Está num ponto bem legal da evolução, apresentando alguns terciários, apesar de ainda ter um bom chão pela frente. Foi duplamente decantado e servido 4h depois. Apresentou um floralzinho discreto, cereja suja de terra, shitake, e o final de alcatrão.
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2/16/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 86 Points
Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Verticals (Sydney, Australia): Menthol, cinnamon and cherry. Palate is heavily tannic still and is quite rough around the edges. Don't think it will improve considerably with time but I could be wrong.
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9/13/2010 - DenisLee wrote:
not sure if this was worth the price. Had a Vietti Perbacco for half the price that I liked more.
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7/16/2010 - CO CHRIS wrote:
14% alc...some oxidation on the nose, browning at the rim...the nose is beautifully earthy, ripe - almost raisined fruit, brown sugar, leather, very floral and extremely expressive straight out of the bottle...medium bodied, good structure and tannin, lush fruit, great acidity, long finish. Quite nice, love the wine.
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3/23/2010 - CO CHRIS wrote:
Wow - initial impression from sip of glass...WALL OF TANNIN...
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5/1/2009 - Eric Guido wrote: 85 Points
Medium red ruby in the glass with aromas of Plum, anise and with a underlying layer of musky, forest floor. On the palate, sour cherries, prune and hint of citrus. Very fresh at first that turns to an earthy, minerally finish which comes off as a little drying with rough tannin. I'm assuming that the initial richness of this Barbaresco followed by the let down of a finish is the result of the hot vintage. Although I don't see myself drinking this five years down the road, it still makes for an enjoyable glass of wine today, accompanied by a plate of pasta with red sauce.
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9/19/2008 - Ian S wrote:
Claret coloured core of medium depth and reasonable brightness. Somewhat raisiny / burnt nose. Again on the palate the warm year shows and the tannins are chunky, slightly bitter and drying, though there is fair length to the finish. A decent wine but not the profile I seek.
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7/10/2007 - admid wrote: 84 Points
Ruby red
Aromas of stone fruits and violets
Cherries and dried fruits on the palate. Warm vintage.
Medium length
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6/9/2007 - 5laton wrote:
The Golden Glass (Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco): More forward than the 99 riserva, but not overly heavy or ripe, and probably in my top three nebbiolos tasted all day.
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