2007 Cappellano Barolo Pie Franco Otin Fiorin (Gabutti)

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  12/3/2022 - cct wrote: 97 Points

  2007 Barolo and one Barbaresco in Tucson (Ciabot Tucker): Double decanted early in the AM. Revisited around such and decanted for a couple hours, then rebottled to be drunk over several hours at dinner.
  
  Terrific lung filling perfume. Roses tar, some Giacosa like hard candy. Archetypal Serralunga. This is simultaneously expansive, yet drinks with an ease of mineral water. Effortless, poised, finer, and more graceful than the Rupestris. The nose is to die for and the palate merely terrific. It's like you took the Rupestris and sent it to finishing school. Wonderful wine and for me the wine of the vintage.

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  11/21/2022 - EDO89 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Served blind. I guessed Serralunga and right it was. There's a very subtle note of chalky limestone, and almost an iron note that always takes me to Serralunga.
  Powerful and austere, extremely expressive in its character, deep red fruits, warm tar, dried roses and balsamic, almost resinous. The nose on Cappellano wines is always a beautiful mystery. Comes and goes, changes every few minutes, going from ethereal and light, to dark and earthy, to mineral and exotic.
  The palate speaks of terroir, tannins are fine grained but imposing, combining with a blood orange type of acidity and giving the wine great length. Goes on for minutes.
  Intellectual and hedonistic, all at once. The magic of Cappellano. When the wines are on, they have few rivals in the Langhe. I'm hoping to drink more and more in the future, even if these wines are becoming impossible to find.

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  1/31/2020 - kenv Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Gala Dinner at La Festa del Barolo 2020 (The Pool Restaurant, NYC): Huge black fruit in the nose and mouth. Amazing richness and length. Certainly one of the wines of the vintage. 95-97

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  1/7/2020 - Eric Guido Likes this wine:

  The bouquet on the ‘07 Pie Franco was layered and deep, showing a stunning mix of black cherry and plum, with balsamic tones, exotic spice, licorice, pipe tobacco and wild dark blue and red florals, all brought to vivid life through a hint of volatility. On the palate, a rush of silky textures carrying ripe red fruits flooded the senses, leaving sweet minerals and spices, as stimulating acids worked their magic to create a mouthwatering, energetic yet purely saitiating expression of pretty, lift fruits against framing Nebbiolo tannin. The finish was long, as a cascade of minerals, light tannin and spicy red fruits slowly faded, leaving a feminen, sweet floral expression. This bottle had been opened almost twelve hours prior to tasting it, and was in a perfect place. I’m aware that scoring Cappellano is a bit taboo, but the ‘07 Pie Franco earned my lofty praise. (97 points)

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  1/6/2020 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine:

  Wow this was an absolutely perfect bottle and unfortunately, there is quite some bottle variation with the Cappellano wines. But when they are on... they are on...
  Dark, deep and balsamic, with notes of menthol, dark cherries, dark red fruit, plum, pine, cedar wood, cigar box, tar, candied violets and some licorice. It‘s medium-full bodied, with excellent depth, has medium+ acidity and medium-high tannin that is present but super silky. Excellent length.
  A very complete, complex and silky Barolo of the highest level. This is absolutely singing tonight and probably the WOTN.

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