2010 Renato Ratti Barolo Conca

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  6/30/2022 - MWiking wrote: 93 Points

  Tufft vin, vädligt mörkt snyggt med mycket tanniner.
  Extremt bra och perfekt nu

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  4/22/2021 - sachsen Likes this wine: 95 Points

  After 6 hours decanted, the tannins have settled down. Wine is still very primary but getting flowers (violet and lavender?) and cherry/strawberry flavors. This is going to age quite well! Hold until 2025 for the next bottle.

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  5/19/2019 - grapenomad wrote: 91 Points

  The wine has a clear medium garnet color in the glass.
  
  The nose is clear with medium intensity of aromas - red fruit (cranberry, cherry), florals (violets, roses), crushed gravel, hints of herbaceousness (blackcurrant leaf) and bottle age (vegetal, cured meat). The wine is developing.
  
  The wine is dry with high medium (+) acidity, medium (+) ripe tannins, medium (+) alcohol, medium (+) body, long length and medium (+) flavor intensity. Flavors of red fruit (cranberry, cherry), florals (violets, roses), hints of bottle age (vegetal, cured meat).
  
  The wine is very good. The wine feels structured and fresh with its acidity, but not difficult, thanks to its ripe tannins. Proper complexity and intensity, but could use a bit more depth, especially towards the finish where it starts to lose its grip a bit. Nevertheless, a very well-made Barolo that will definitely benefit from long-term cellaring.

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  5/14/2019 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fine Wines SG - Italian Varietal Wine Dinner - Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Corvina, Aglianico, Nerello Mascalese (Porters Restaurant & Bar): Well-balanced, well-made, structured wine with an expansive profile of tomato, basil, olives, shrimp and squid

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  1/24/2018 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 93 Points

  AWE Barolo Tasting (Extra Space): Tasted blind. Aired in bottle for about an hour then poured in decanter. Consumed over the next 1 hour.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of toast, red cherries, earth, salty stones minerality, emerging coconut oak with more air. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14.5%), smooth high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet ripe red cherries, sour red cherries, ripe strawberries, stony minerality, earth. Very long finish.
  Very good quality. Clearly very modern style, but it's good. The sweet ripe red fruits still convey a sense of elegance. Young now, this will need another 4-5 years to shed the oak and baby fat.
  I was guessing this was either a young Sandrone Le Vigne Barolo or maybe an Elio Altare Barolo from La Morra.
  Surprised that I would actually like a Renato Ratti wine when tasted blind. I should not be so quick to dismiss his ultra-modern style Barolo.
  Short maceration time of 7-10 days. Malolactic fermentation in 100% new French oak barrels. Then aged 2 years in used French oak barriques.
  Conca is a small vineyard in the hollow of the Abbey of Annunziata, in the commune of La Morra.

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