2012 Paolo Conterno Barolo Ginestra

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  5/5/2023 - EricRouthier wrote:

  Reçu de pierre Richer pour 50 ans

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  5/29/2022 - FredericoWines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted for two hours still had prominent nose of soya sauce and mushrooms (Brett?) with little fruits and floral notes. Two more hours gone by, dark fruits, rose pedals and minty spice came out. Tannin were silky smooth without edges. With long decant, it's drinking beautifully now.

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  11/27/2020 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  The sternest of the bunch of '12 Barolos. Dense, but elegant, high noted fruit to it. Better day two. So hold.

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  9/29/2020 - Macdog Likes this wine:

  I can only give a range of points because i dont know exactly what happened/went wrong here. A Jekyll and Hyde and story. Sort of.
  
  Opened and decanted for c.4-5 hours and then returned to bottle to drink at Sir Charles Napier with dinner. Pretty flat when poured back into a decanter and then into glasses at SCN. Nice but fairly unremarkable and just edges 89 to 90 points.
  
  At home, drank two glasses that had been poured from the original denacter into said glasses c.7-8 hours after opening bottle. It was a different wine and was truly fantastic and really top quality - especially at the price point. Long, balanced, lively and exciting; great purity and variety of fruit. 95 points.
  
  Further note to follow in due course.

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  4/19/2019 - collin wrote:

  I thought this was drinking perfectly well. Classic Barolo aromas of roses, tar, cherry - probably in that order. Struck me as on the elegant side of things. No reason why this shouldn't age gracefully, but no reason IMO not to drink now.

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