2001 Travaglini Gattinara

Community Tasting Notes (59) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  2/7/2022 - johnny wine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Colour dark ruby, earthy aromas of leather, forest floor . The elegant, dried cherry plum and tobacco, well balance.

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  3/2/2018 - SAND Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Last bottle out of 3.
  Colour: Medium garnet towards brick red.
  Nose: Sour, then sweet fruitiness of raspberry, cherry and plum. Autumn leaves, mushrooms, smoke. A lovely, slightly smokey, mature Nebbiolo nose. (90p)
  Taste: Medium to light bodied. A nervous but surprisingly vibrant balance bewteen sweet red fruit and acidity. Long and juicy wine, with quite a lot of fruity sweetness. Medium long aftertaste. Mouth watering and an excellent food wine. With food the fruitiness became sweeter and the wine literally went from medium-to-light-bodied to medium-to-full-bodied (that’s a first). (89p)
  Fully mature but vibrant and, if not with much further development potential (in terms of developing more complexity), then certainly with several vibrant years ahead of it. At half the price of Barolos at a comparable quality level, this wine was always great value.
  Total score 89 points
  04.03.2018 Update: On day 2 the wine has evolved positively; the nose becoming even more classic Nebbiolo, so perfumed, with a lovely deep, dark cherry fruit and the smoke having evolved more into tarr territory; in the mouth it has become a little fuller and full of sweet, ripe fruit balanced by a lovely tannin structure and such a deep and perfumed (in the best sense of the word) cherry taste.
  This really goes to show the importance of airing certain mature quality wines long enough. I add 2 more points; 91 points is the new total score.

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  12/14/2015 - jan erik wrote: 86 Points

  Nothing special left in this bottle

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  2/13/2015 - johnny wine Likes this wine: 89 Points

  The wine looks purple colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like cherry. It tastes like cherry, forest floor, oak and chocolate. The body is medium/full. The wine has round texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity.

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  10/3/2014 - quaffnov wrote: flawed

  The cork broke off during removal and the wine had clearly maderized.

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