2010 La Spinetta (Rivetti) Barolo Vigneto Garretti

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  10/12/2022 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Definitely recommend for what it is - a good QPR and now fully mature and well balanced modern style barolo. Drink or hold - if drunk now recommend aeration in bottle for 2-3 hours or a 60-90 minute decant and do not expect significant further upside with further cellaring but on the other hand under proper cellaring circumstances this has an easy decade+ to go. Dark reddish purple, peripheral bricking starting to occur, medium bodied, spicy and fruit forward but integrating nicely with good balance, oak & tannins still present but controlled and lovely medium length aftertaste. Nose bright and fruit forward with dark stone fruit, black pepper and licorice. Flavor profile of dark stone fruit, oak and blueberry up front with more graphite, coffee and black olive on the finish. Not as dark, complex and full bodied as the best of the more traditional barolos, a lighter more approachable style but a very nice wine none the less.

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  10/2/2022 - olioli wrote: 90 Points

  See previous note from swapdoc. Exactly it. I was also surprised by the cork...

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  1/1/2022 - swyang wrote:

  Happy new year everyone! It is always a great challenge to find a wine matching my native Korean food with. I tried this for the 1st time and I must say it went very well indeed!! Much better than I had expected, or hoped. The fruits are fading away to make the color a bit more transparent and just a bit crimson, on the nose it is beautiful indeed with floral and gorgeous small berries with freshness coming out of the glass effortlessly. On the palate, the tannin is very healthy and not at all giving way, but the fruits have, so I thought it would be standing tall versus the Korean traditional meal of the new year's day and the healthy tanning was totally rounding up with the flavors and spices of the food and the backend freshness of fruits prevailed most nicely to combine the two distinct worlds and made them to understand each other very nicely. Something that I wish Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin should take time to taste together... if you know what I mean. Cheers,

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  9/17/2021 - swapdoc Does not like this wine:

  Floral, perfumed, oak influenced wine, youthful still and tannic. Volatile aroma of stems; taste of strawberry, celery. Wood treatment added a slick, perfumed characteristic. An average modern expression of barolo; a cheap cork tells you what the producer thought of this effort.

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  7/25/2019 - Raizes Does not like this wine: 89 Points

  樱桃、蔓越莓、水蜜桃，甜香料和些微罗勒气息，轻飘飘的果味和重橡木桶带来的工艺香气仿佛来自南北两极。入口酸度明显，集中度不足，尽管五六个小时后单宁强度逐渐明显，并迅速占据口中的主角位置，但柔顺度一般，导致口中的冲撞感过于强烈，抵消了层次复杂度带来的愉悦感。89/100
  
  给这款酒评分的时候，我已经告诫自己要摒弃对这家酒庄的成见，但在这个杂谈环节，我忍不住要说：喝过的次数越多，我越不想再碰到这家酒庄的任何一款Nebbiolo.就是这样。

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