Second bottle of this and it couldn’t be more different. Bright ruby colour. Fresh and vigorous nose with a noticeable new oak character but also bright red fruits, subtle camphor, herbs. Complex. Fresh, bright and energetic on the palate. Elegant but tons of fruit. Fine tannins. This is a suoerb, elgant Barolo.
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The cork broke as I was opening this, and the wine is surprisingly brown in colour. The nose is initially dominated by camphor, with very ripe fruit. The palate is ripe and a little cooked at first. Going to give this air and come back to it. Edit: it did freshen up a little with exposure to air but it remained very advanced, ripe and a little cooked. Not a good bottle I suspect.
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Very nice although the bright red color seemed to look young while the wine was very balanced and the tannins seemed fully integrated. Will wait before opening another bottle to see how it evolves.
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10/27/2023 - jcasey555 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Really nice. Has matured well and drinking very well, opened for about 1.5h and then decanted.
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4/22/2023 - jamesabdavis wrote:
Second bottle of this and it couldn’t be more different. Bright ruby colour. Fresh and vigorous nose with a noticeable new oak character but also bright red fruits, subtle camphor, herbs. Complex.
Fresh, bright and energetic on the palate. Elegant but tons of fruit. Fine tannins.
This is a suoerb, elgant Barolo.
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4/16/2022 - jamesabdavis wrote:
The cork broke as I was opening this, and the wine is surprisingly brown in colour. The nose is initially dominated by camphor, with very ripe fruit.
The palate is ripe and a little cooked at first. Going to give this air and come back to it.
Edit: it did freshen up a little with exposure to air but it remained very advanced, ripe and a little cooked. Not a good bottle I suspect.
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1/16/2022 - jcasey555 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very nice although the bright red color seemed to look young while the wine was very balanced and the tannins seemed fully integrated. Will wait before opening another bottle to see how it evolves.
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6/14/2020 - nmcandrew Likes this wine: 97 Points
Perfect Barolo. Drank at 11 years.
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