2010 Elio Grasso Barolo Gavarini Chiniera

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  4/19/2024 - Papies wrote: flawed

  London Chapter Dinner of the Cavalieri del Tartufo & dei Vini d’Alba (The Oxford & Cambridge Club, London): Corked.. shame

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  4/19/2024 - Papies wrote: 94 Points

  London Chapter Dinner of the Cavalieri del Tartufo & dei Vini d’Alba (The Oxford & Cambridge Club, London): Easily the wine of the night and stood out in both complexity but also elegance among its other siblings. Granted we had ( total 6 bottles opened ) one that underperformed and one that was corked but still the 4 healthy bottles shown through.
  Classic dark cherry, tar feel, soft earthy side coming thought and this is now in its full stride. This is a super result, expressive , perfumed and full of charm. Medium to full bodied , proper complexity on the palate and just a great Barolo through and through. 94 and with a good 10 more years of proper life here.

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  2/29/2024 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine:

  Vinous Italy Icons with Eric Guido (Feb 2024, NYC): Incredibly closed but you can sense the potential. Score withheld.

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  2/11/2024 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  It took 3 days for this to come together. Initially tasted after a 3 hr decant and this was an awkward, sharp-elbowed mix of fierce tannin, bold red berries, garden shop florals and searing acidity. A day after leaving it in an evacuated bottle produced some integration but still too much tannin to balance the other components. On the third day this finally came together magnificently, still very structured but now the ingredients were not competing: violets, orange, light spice, a touch of gaminess.
  Honestly on the basis of my bottle I would leave this for at least another decade. It could be stellar.
  Score: 94+. Relative to expectations: ++ at least.

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  12/23/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  The '10 Gavarini is the best wine I've tasted from Elio Grasso. It is just entering the early part of what should be a long drinking window - today, the aromatics are beautiful and the palate shows incredible finesse, but I still found it a bit ungiving on the palate. This bottle was double decanted in the afternoon and drank over a few hours at dinner.
  
  The nose was intensely perfumed and it's immediately clear that this is a special wine. The aromatics are incredibly sweet with hard candy like red berry fruits and fresh red roses bursting from the glass, along with fresh mint, blood orange peel, and spice aromas. The aromatic intensity of the wine, especially later in the evening, combined with the sweetness and the delineation of the red fruit and floral tone is incredible.
  
  On the palate, the Gavarini was medium in body and super finessed, with minimal perception of tannin. I found the wine quite a bit stricter on the palate than the nose suggested, but again the sweetness of the fruit and floral tones stands out, with red berry fruit, red roses, mint, and licorice flowing across the palate.
  
  Compared to other vintages of Gavarini, the '10 stands out for the purity of its flavor profile and the inner sweetness - the fruit and floral tones here are so distinct and sweet, which I also get in the best vintages like '16 and '19, but the '10 seems on another level. The tannins here seem to melt into the wine, whereas in a recent vintage like '19, I found a more classic and strict tannic structure. Obviously there's a 9 year age gap there, but the gap in tannin quality strikes me as wider than that age gap.

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