Tasted blind among 6 Nebbiolo’s at SKurtz’s place. I had this pegged as a modern style wine from Barolo but this seemed rather clumsy overall for me. It seemed to lack focus though it did have that Nebbiolo trypicity and a rich and bold structure and mouth feel. Nothing at all wrong with this wine but it may have been just a bit over oaked making it harder to discern its finer points. Not one of my favorites tonight.
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Double decanted hours in advance of a dinner party, in which we tasted six nebbiolos head-to-head, blinded. This bottle was brought by a generous guest. Plush cedary nose, hints of vanilla. On the palate, hints of sweet cherries, more cedar, flowers, faint tannins, black pepper, and soft acid. This wine ended up, for me at least, in the middle of the blinded bottles. The impression is of a fully mature wine at the beginning or starting to decline, at least based on the muted fruit expression. If 91/92
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3/15/2024 - rustyRudy Likes this wine:
Herbs, cigar, some cherry fruit
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11/27/2023 - gnsti Likes this wine: 93 Points
체리, 달큰한 졸인 딸기, 라즈베리, 허브, 감초
아직도 어린듯 혀끝에 강력하고 촘촘한 타닌, 좋은 산도, 묵직한 바디감, 견고한 구조감
복합미가 살짝 아쉽지만 아주 훌륭했다.
94 -> 93
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8/2/2022 - oldwines Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tasted blind among 6 Nebbiolo’s at SKurtz’s place. I had this pegged as a modern style wine from Barolo but this seemed rather clumsy overall for me. It seemed to lack focus though it did have that Nebbiolo trypicity and a rich and bold structure and mouth feel. Nothing at all wrong with this wine but it may have been just a bit over oaked making it harder to discern its finer points. Not one of my favorites tonight.
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8/2/2022 - skurtz Likes this wine: 92 Points
Double decanted hours in advance of a dinner party, in which we tasted six nebbiolos head-to-head, blinded. This bottle was brought by a generous guest. Plush cedary nose, hints of vanilla. On the palate, hints of sweet cherries, more cedar, flowers, faint tannins, black pepper, and soft acid. This wine ended up, for me at least, in the middle of the blinded bottles. The impression is of a fully mature wine at the beginning or starting to decline, at least based on the muted fruit expression. If 91/92
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6/17/2022 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Similar to prior notes after a 2 hour double decant; very good & showed better with the bucatini amatriciana, but still not at peak, hold
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