1999 Renato Ratti Barolo Conca

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  5/25/2019 - LWI wrote: 89 Points

  Drying a bit now. Drink up.

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  4/8/2017 - Louvin Likes this wine: 93 Points

  slo ox for 4 hrs and decant for 2, no sediment, red fruited with excellent overall appeal, all the text book character without any faults. In a great window now.

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  8/15/2015 - swapdoc Likes this wine:

  Sweet and deep wine with aromatics of cherry and pine resin. Layered, showing sweet roses, jam, hins of menthol, sap. Long, mineral, rich mouth feel; the oak is well integrated and adds texture. Very good.

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  10/24/2014 - SAND wrote:

  Colour: Medium deep ruby.
  
  Nose: Opening with a dry, almost dusty nose, then "red" perfume and dark red berries, tar and rose petals. After some 15-20 minutes a more rustic nose develops, bordering on corked (just stopping short of crossing over to corked - based among other things on the absence of the "corked" typical bitterness and on the quite sweet and clear fruit taste developing in parallell with the rustic nose). And then, two and a half hours after opening the corked-like rusticness is totally gone and we're back to the perfume from the initial nose...
  
  Taste & palate: Very dry and tannic opening. After an hour or so of air, more of the fruit comes out and the wine rounds out a bit. But at the same time, and despite more sweet fruit notes developing, the rustic character shines through also here. Until it suddenly doesn't...
  
  How to read this wine? Difficult.
  Drink or keep? Given its rather unyielding state I would take the chance on forgetting it for a few years and take it out again towards its 20th birthday (I'm not convinced it will work out but I'd be willing to take the risk). If you open now: give it time and follow it along its development curve.

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  11/17/2012 - Karlaar wrote: 89 Points

  Really dark red. On the nose it starts a bit closed, then it reveals a very nice clean earthy smell leaves (imagine walking in the woods in the fall just after rain), rose and tar. Exellent. On the palate: Starts smooth, in the middle it opens up with a complex set of red berries, tar and hint of dark chocolate. Tannic and big aftertaste, maybe too big - ideally it should have been more elegant. I doubt that tannins will intergrate further. That is: Ready to drink now. Big Barolo, great, but not outstanding.

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