2011 Cascina Morassino Barbaresco Ovello

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  9/10/2017 - stefr Likes this wine: 91 Points

  As always very good and with good integrated oak. Was missing a bit of fruit tonight, but at the end it went very well with game.

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  8/29/2014 - Derek Darth Taster wrote:

  Tasting at Enoteca Regionale del Barbaresco (Enoteca Regionale del Barbaresco): Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with toasted vanilla oak covering up the fruit. Youthful.
  On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium+ alcohol, creamy high tannins, full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, with flavours of toasted vanilla oak and sweet dark cherries. Long finish.
  Good quality modern style. Needs another 5+ years for the oak to integrate and tone down to allow the fruit to show.
  Aged in small French oak barriques.

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  4/14/2014 - Tim Heaton wrote:

  {Visit to Cascina Morassino} PnP. Slightly darker garnet core compared to the normale before it. Opens with lots of wood influence (12 mos in new oak, then moved to 2,500 liter botti), taking a full 5 minutes before revealing much else; finally, some sweet cherries, dried leaves, herbs, but this is painfully tight and really should spend 6-7 years in the cellar to better integrate. Ultimately too much wood influence for my palate - maybe in a decade, but for now, the Ovello fruit is tightly concealed. 14,5% abv (resolved).
  
  For my palate, I'd love to revisit this in about 15 years. The finish is long, and the grapes are of high quality; the new wood is masking the floral and mineral components I always look for.
  
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