1996 Gianfranco Bovio Barolo Vigna Gattera

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  1/15/2020 - WhinyWiner Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This was nice on opening, but got better over 2 hours. It may have continued getting better, but it was gone by 2h (someone drank it). It's a great wine, light, balanced. However, it has lost a dimension since the last bottle (8/11/18) where it was a 96 score wine for me. At that time it had a few more interesting tertiary flavors circulating. Now it is a bit more two dimensional.

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  1/9/2018 - RichardP wrote: 90 Points

  This is better than a bottle from a few years ago, with strawberry and camphor on the nose and candied cherry, strawberry, rose petal, and earthy notes on the medium finish, with light tannins and good acidity. This improved over three hours, but it was starting to fade on the second day. Very good value at a little under $50.

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  11/29/2016 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points

  Nose: The nose is pretty and understated with red cherries, strawberries, roasted herbs, tar, earth notes, rose petals, truffles, and wild flowers with a touch of wet clay.
  
  Taste: Medium bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The feel is refined with an understated style to it backed up by rd cherries, strawberries, tar, earth notes, juniper berries, wet clay, wild flowers, and potpourri on the back end.
  
  Overall: This is drinking beautifully. It is pure La Morra in its feminity and showing off the harmony befitting its age.

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  6/2/2016 - RichardP wrote: 88 Points

  Pop and pour, then drunk over four hours. Light roses and camphor on the nose. On the palate, cherry and rose petal with faint earthy notes. This doesn't seem to have evolved at all in the past two years, and I have no idea when it will come out of its shell. The Cellartracker drink-by date seems far too early. I will hold my remaining bottles for three or four years before trying another.

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  5/20/2014 - RichardP wrote: 88 Points

  Decanted for three hours. Classic rose petal and menthol on the nose; on the palate, rose petal, light cherry and strawberry, and a bit of earthiness, with moderate acidity. This bottle was not as fresh as some from a few years ago, and it doesn't (yet) have the interesting secondary/tertiary notes I was hoping for. I will wait a few years before opening another bottle.

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