1998 Vietti Barolo Castiglione

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  12/30/2017 - t.c.green Likes this wine: 89 Points

  An excellent wine for my birthday at Assiago with family and friends. This is medium bodied for a Barolo and is at the height of it's life. I will drink the next 5 over the next 10 years.

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  6/18/2014 - guchl wrote: 91 Points

  Nice... Classic notes - tar, roses, mint. Fruit tasted of plums in one glass and ranier cherries in another. Medium long finish. Mature and enjoyable

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  1/11/2014 - Vinomane Does not like this wine: 82 Points

  More evidence of Vietti's ill-timed lacuna during the great Barolo vintage run of 1996-2001. You can tell it's Barolo and not much else. Pruny and stillborn on day one; no better on day two. No upper register aromatics, no grip on the palate, nothing singing on the finish: a failure.

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  9/22/2012 - ghostofgotham wrote: 84 Points

  The bottle we poured was on the wrong side of the hill at this point, but you could still pick up some of the iodine and red berries that I think of when this producer comes to mind.

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  7/28/2012 - WineDoctors wrote: 91 Points

  nose is red licorice, a little animale that moves to barnyard; fine tannins, dark fruit, medium bodied with foraged mushrooms in duck jus. drink now it seems

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