2008 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric dël Fiasc

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  4/15/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 94 Points

  One of my favourite Barolos, partly, I confess, for the 'Fiasc' in the name - it reminds me of my life. Indeed, it is from the Fiasco cru, which is even better.
  
  Made as a distinct wine since 1978, it is also the house favourite. Note that word - is it better than the Annunziata, or the Cannubi? I think the case can be made, but it is sort of irrelevant because it is the wine that I also like best.
  
  The tannins in this wine are sandy and fine and there is a reason I write about them ahead of the delicate and glorious fruit - they are to me a thing of genuine, rugged beauty and I can't get enough of them. The fruit is all glace cherry, tar and rose petals and some jube. Exquisite. The overall impression has me putting on Manfred Mann's Earth Band's ethereal song 'You are, I am'. Like the wine, I never want this song to end. The descending 6 note motif so wonderfully expresses the melancholy and joy that meet in so many things, including finishing a glass of this.
  
  This wine is comfortably in the outstanding category. Perhaps the finish could maintain intensity for a moment longer, he asks, scratching about for reasons to not give it the ridiculous score that he wants to give it.
  
  I would exercise caution in ascribing oak to Barolo. Those days are long gone. The tannins can mislead, giving the wine an impression of oak, were it another grape variety. Scavino at this time had long given up use of new oak in any significant way. At this time, he was down to about 15% new oak barriques for a year. The real key to the wine lies in its soil (sandier than any other adjacent site) and the way they manage extraction and ferment. They are also rigorous in the vineyard, making several green passes and then hand sorting when picked.

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  7/18/2023 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 94 Points

  BaBa 05-10 dinner session at Bar Cicheti.
  Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of blue marl earth, minerality, integrated oak spice, red plummy fruit. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, juicy high acidity, high alcohol (14.5%), integrating high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of dominant minerality, red plums, ripe strawberry, ripe red cherries, sweet oak spices. Long finish.
  Very good quality. Feels quite in the zone and drinking really well now already, though there is still certainly good life ahead also. Slight oak showing the side of some modernity here.

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  7/17/2023 - Philolesen Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Hints of fresh berries, dried berries, dried flowers and tar. Perfect to drink now. Good straight out of the bottle. No need to give this too much air.
  92-93.

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  8/30/2022 - MuddyBear Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted 4 hours. Drank blind with 14 other wines so no detailed notes. Very expressive, nice balance, red fruit, full bodied. Everyone had a difficult time placing the wine. In a good spot

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  7/26/2021 - Dekra Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Perfect time to drink this wine. Very good

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