2012 Cavallotto Langhe Nebbiolo

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  8/29/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points

  Barely moved over two nights. Classic aromas of crushed cherries, fresh herbs and florals. Baby Barolo on the palate with pure cherry fruit laced with new leather and florals. Bright with medium body and well integrated structure. At peak and will hold for 3-5+ years.

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  8/24/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points

  A simply delightful Nebbiolo that hits all the right notes -- fresh cut cherry, musky spice, notions of dried cut florals -- in a fresh, round, and vibrant package. Should hold for at least 5 more years.

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  7/11/2021 - Echinosum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What Forceberry said. Perfect for drinking now, though there is still a touch of searing tannin in the background (edit: probably a Covid effect), so better with food.
  Decanted 8 hours before drinking.

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  2/13/2021 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  Fermented spontaneously, macerated with the skins for 3-4 weeks. Aged for 15-24 months in large Slavonian oak casks and another 6 months in bottles. 14% alcohol.
  
  Deep, translucent pomegranate color. Sunny, somewhat sweet and very varietally correct nose with aromas of fragrant cherries, some wild strawberries, a little bit of earthy spice, light tobacco and leather tones, a hint of smoke and tar and a touch of sun-baked gravelly earth. Very attractive overall impression. The wine feels ripe, medium-bodied and textural on the palate with fine-tuned flavors of licorice, brambly black, some ripe cranberry and red cherry tones, a little bit of earth, light pipe tobacco tones and a sweet hint of spice cabinet. Very firm and enjoyably tightly-knit yet not lean overall feel, thanks to the high acidity and quite grippy tannins. The finish is dry, moderately grippy and savory with long flavors of tobacco, some licorice root, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light brambly notes of black raspberries, hints of tar and smoke and a touch of earth.
  
  A very tasty, sophisticated and harmonious Langhe Nebbiolo that punches above its weight, performing more like a Barbaresco or Roero Rosso than a "mere" Langhe Nebbiolo. Shows wonderfully classic, varietally correct aromatics and enjoyably tightly-knit, firm structure. Starting to show some signs of age, but most likely will continue to improve for at least a handful of years. This wine isn't going to be as long-lived as the Barolo bottlings of Cavallotto, but fortunately this isn't priced like on either. A very lovely effort and definitely among the better Langhe Nebbiolos, highly recommended.

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  12/23/2020 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very nice again, notable this time is lovely red fruit, aged red fruit, kind-of dusky with an overlay of light floral notes, tobacco. Nice balanced acid and smooth, defined tannin. Served with black trumpet mushrooms sauteed in light cream sauce. Perfect combo.

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