2010 Vigneti Massa Derthona Montecitorio

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  10/21/2022 - gilrbo Likes this wine:

  Powerful and firm as Timorasso can be, but with enough freshness and the smoothness which comes from age. All in all drinking great and for many at the table the best white wine of the evening.

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  5/23/2018 - gilrbo Likes this wine:

  PnP then drunk over three evenings.
  Medium-deep golden yellow, clear.
  Nose is all on wet rocks, with a bit of dried herbs and hay, As the temperature increases one feels more the alcohol, with a vermouth-like sensation.
  The palate starts with an impression of lightness, but it soon gets mineral weight. Frm the mid-palate on it's dominated by salinity and kept lively by its acidity. It's a powerful wine, but well balanced. It can age much longer.

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  6/18/2013 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Piedmont 2013, Day 2 - Dinner with Walter Massa of Vignetti Massa (Ristorante Bovio, La Morra, Piedmont, Italy): A step up from the entry-level Derthona that preceded it, this had a very complex nose, with white peach and other stone fruit notes speckled with scents of spice and and mineral, herbs and honey. Very intriguing. The palate was weightier and definitely more serious, with a powerful feel to its honeyed tones with fleshy flavours of white peach and spice arrayed on a very full midpalate. Rich though it may have been, there was always a little seam of acidity keeping it on lithe on its feet, with a citrussy base opening up into surprisingly fresh finish, with leaner notes of lemon zest, fruit pips and long intertwine of mineral and spice at the end. With time a bit of time and air, the wine actually seemed fresher and fresher, with the honeyed overtones ceding the way slightly to clear lemony tones. A very nice wine, and one that deserves a few years in the cellar at least.

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