1970 Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  1/21/2023 - NickRioja Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Scored from a buyer direct from the cellar in Italy. Bottle had good fill, cork was in good condition. This wine kicked off from the start with serious stewed fruits and smoky meat. Freshness noticeable still, but it’s time to drink. Very enjoyable for a 50+ year old. 90 all day

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  8/6/2020 - hshdream wrote: 75 Points

  lightly spoiled

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  8/6/2020 - decaturwinedude wrote: 90 Points

  Decanted for 3 hours. Opens to show a light brown-pin-orange color and mostly translucent. Nose is truffle, forest floor, hints of tea and smoked meat. Appealing, in an old Barolo- way. Hints of cherry and tart red fruit on the palate. It has thinned out, and get overwhelmed a bit by the brisket, but the texture is on point and it drinks very well for about an hour. Good wine. These Borgogno wines live long lives.

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  5/27/2019 - Gen NY Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The wine started out brown and almost caramel colored but worked back to brick during a long 5 hour decant. There is heavy sediment layer inside the bottle (like fruit rollup). It smells like forest floor, mushroom, lightly smoked pork belly, green and black tea, tobacco, small game, soy sauce and clove. On the pallet, there's still some cherries with orange peel, mushroom, forest floor, light clove, tea leaves, bell pepper and some game. The body is light very light and has a satin-like texture. The wine finishes short medium.
  
  I like it and feel like it will hold the current (albeit very mature) profile for some time. Maybe a good wine to serve at a 50th birthday next year.

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  4/2/2019 - Gen NY Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted at cellar temp for 5 hours and room temp for 2 hours. The sediment has become a solid thin sheet on the inside of the bottle and came out like a pieces of thin fruit rollup when I rinsed the bottle. Cork was OK but used prongs to ease it out.
  
  Wine was very light colored and still balanced between maroon and Brick - what little amber there was seemed to fade.
  
  Very nice nose of mushroom, earth, old attic and some residual tart fruit. Palate was a mix of earth, mushroom, tart cherry, iodine, dust and some other unknown flavors.
  
  most excellent experience when decanted properly.

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