1999 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Pora

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  1/13/2024 - SixHedgehogs Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Dinner 13th Jan 2024 (Catford): A great bottle. Dark red/brown. Thick aroma of tar, musk, fruitcake and liquorice. Layers of rich cherry and blackcurrant flavour, with oak, vanilla and tobacco. A bitter chocolate note develops as the wine aerates. Exquisite.

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  9/14/2023 - ciaovito Likes this wine:

  Opened for our tasting group along with 3 other 1999 Barbaresco Rabaja and Rio Sordo from the Produttori along with the Cigliuti Serraboella.
  I only gave the wines 90 minutes to breathe and they clearly needed more This was the lightest of the 4 but over the course of many hours leftover after the tasting this wine shined. Both the Pora and Rabaja seemed to ebb and flow I guess as the tannins receded. All the wines changed pretty drastically with air. The Rio Sordo faded and was entirely the most open and fleshy It was my least favorite The group overwhelmingly loved the Cigliutti the best Great tasting and good wines.
  I knew that air was crucial but this was a hastily arranged afternoon tasting. All in all the Pora was gorgeous and beautifully showed fruit acid tannin. As mentioned austere at first but slowly showed it’s stiff.
  Bought on release.

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  8/18/2023 - Bob H wrote:

  Better on the palate - the nose has a pruney/overripe fruit note that detracts. I just had a glass of the 2001 Pora, and that wine blows this away - blind, you would never guess there was only a two year difference in age. As the wines have aged, it's become pretty clear, at least with respect to the Produttori wines, that 2001 was a much better vintage than '99. I can recall Antonio Galloni years ago remarking that '99 was a little uneven in Barbaresco, and I think that in many cases the wines are supporting that assessment.

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  2/21/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Knights of Alba (KOA) BYO Barbaresco Dinner (Legacy Records): Saddle leather, age, classic in style. This was more evolved than I expected it to be. Perhaps from the warmer weather?

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  9/3/2021 - Brady D Likes this wine:

  Outstanding bottle. Unlike the youthful '99 Ovello a few weeks ago, this one looks it’s age. Very light red with significant bricking. First smell was concerning, I thought it was a bit oxidized. But after sitting for a few minutes it really opened up. Tons of different earthy / fungus notes around a licorice and tar core. Not much overt fruit left, but enough to keep the wine fresh and delicious, rather than just interesting. I enjoyed this bottle as much as any of the highly reputed traditional makers. I’m not always convinced by PdB, but this puts me back in the believer camp. A+

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