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  • 2016 Gianfranco Alessandria Barolo

    This case of attractively priced Barolo ($30.00/bottle from Flatiron NYC) reinforced my experience with mid-tier Barolo -- they have an optimal drinking window one should adhere too. Let's say 7-8 years. Open too soon and experience a closed wine with overpowering organic notes and little fruit. Wait too long, and the tannins have subsided but so has the fruit. Open at the optimal time and one finds an open, balanced wine with complex notes of fruit and organics (leather, tobacco, cedar and so on). A long finish with tannins with alcohol and sugar in check. Unfortunately, one often discovers this optimal window by chance. Alas, I tend to drink Barolo too soon or too late.

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  • 1990 Château Latour Grand Vin

    I bought this single bottle of the 1990 Chateau Latour for $99 USD from The Wine Library soon after its release -- and way before Gary Vaynerchuk became an internet phenom. Back then he was "employed" by his dad who owned the store. Enough of the history...

    Very little sediment evidenced when decanting. Dark ruby red with absolute clarity and no browning on the edges. A clean nose mostly of alcohol and esters. An initial impression in the mouth of mustiness evidenced by all tasters. A replacement bottle was readied.

    Within 30 minutes this dissipated and we all experienced a near perfect wine. Not much fruit. Primary notes of leather, earth and dry tobacco. Quite round, lush and full in the mouth. The finish was remarkably long with contrasting tension between sweet black fruit and tannins. These same tannins were teeth numbing moments before. Or maybe it was the alcohol...

    The mustiness returned on the second glass 20 minutes later and stayed with us for the balance of the bottle. Not so off-putting to wish we were drinking something else -- rather just the slightest of annoyances. Otherwise this wine would have been a 98 or higher.

    The drinking window on Cellar Tracker extends to 2060 but I would suggest drinking this wine within the next five years -- unless you have plenty of the 1990 Latour and are willing to take the chance.

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  • 2019 Alphonse Mellot Sancerre Rouge La Moussière

    A very funky nose upon opening that fortunately blew off within minutes. Deep red concentration suggesting more Syrah than Pinot Noir. Plenty of dark fruit. Hot on the finish. While I enjoy sampling Pinot Noir from regions beyond Burgundy, there are times I wish the locals would have renamed the grape. A change in nomenclature eliminate comparisons to the benchmark and prompt a more neutral or even positive tasting note.

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  • oldwines says:

    1/6/2019 2:57:00 PM - Couldn’t agree more on the “Cult Cali’s” as a generalization. Though I don’t tend to buy at auction, provenance can be so variable. I prefer, if I must, to buy from guys like Cana Wines or Benchmark, etc... they investigate the cellars they buy from.

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