1997 Marcarini Barolo Brunate

Community Tasting Notes (61) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  6/9/2023 - rougeamore Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The wine is a pale-medium garnet with medium intensity aromas of violets, mushroom, leather, and a mix of red and black fruit. The wine is dry with high acidity and high alcohol. It has a medium, well-integrated, fine tannic structure and is medium-to-full bodied. Flavors of mushroom, leather, tar, red currant and blackberries are predominant at medium intensity. It has a long, mature finish. This is a very good wine. Great for old Nebbiolo-lovers like myself.

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  1/12/2023 - Outplaying wrote:

  Pulled the cork before I left for work, and then decanted for about an hour when I got home. Poured back into the bottle and took to a local restaurant. It needed the air as it was muddled and showing some earthy, brown flavors when poured into the decanter. At the restaurant it was much more alive. Showing some fall spices, a little tannin, dried red fruits. Aging gracefully and showing some elegance. We both enjoyed it.

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  5/25/2022 - Carlo Sarto Likes this wine:

  Took a bottle to a excellent local restaurant to have with seared duck breast brushed 
with a tamarind glaze, a coconut 
milk, lemongrass and lime juice sauce. The match was perfect. We took our time savoring the perfectly mature Brunate. It has so clearly the Brunate MGA distinctiveness and at the same time is different from other Marcarini Brunate's. This has a little more weight than most but still is a La Morra Barolo Brunate. It is a special treat to tast it at this stage.
  
  For those interested I have written about Marcarini Barolo Brunate in an essay "Barolo Landscape Studies: Barolo MGA 360º Vermeer Rilke" that can be downloaded here:
  https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/wine_journey/7/
  
  This essay is part of an ebook "Wine Journey: Tasting Dwelling Learning at The Kitchen Table" with other downloadable essays on the aesthetics of wine, philosophy, poetry and art. Marcarini Brunate shows up in other essays as do other wines -- Cordero di Montezemolo Enrico VI, Bartolo Mascarello and E. Pira (71-78) Barolos as well as R. Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reservas, de Montille Volnay and others.

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  3/1/2022 - eporres Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Oustanding aged Barolo, no bottle variation in my bottle, all tasting notes below corroborate, time to drink now. The ideal decant seems to be 1-2 hours, and remember the serving temperature! If you leave it out at room temp while you decant or otherwise, it will warm up (too much)

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  9/15/2021 - acyso wrote: flawed

  Dinner at Osteria Langhe (Chicago, IL): The nose is quite volatile and the palate muddy (surprise) and soyed. Not a sound bottle.

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