2012 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Francia

Community Tasting Notes (33) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  11/8/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  The 2012 Francia is a textbook Barolo and an incredible wine, especially for the vintage.
  
  On the nose, I found a stereotypical Barolo expression of sweet red cherry and plum fruit, fresh red roses, tar, tea, orange peel, and menthol. On the palate, the wine is medium to full in body, quite concentrated, and again the flavor profile is super classic with red cherry and red roses at the front, with tar, tea, and a touch of a balsamic note joining on the finish. This is a powerful, tannic wine, but the tannins are pretty refined, albeit not as much as the best vintages of Conterno where Monfortino is made like the 2010 or 2014.
  
  This is a wine that should ideally be aged for another 10+ years, a rare 2012 that is still not in its drinking window. That said, the wine is beautiful right now. I found the wine to be most consistently expressive when first opened, with the wine at times clenching and shutting down with air.

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  10/19/2023 - stanqwash Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Good lord. A nose from heaven. Dominated by young crushed berries and fresh flowers. Shockingly approachable on the palate. Still some tannins that need to resolve but just a beautiful juice bomb of cherry and raspberry with some cocoa and tobacco notes lingering in the background. This is a wine you sniff for minutes on end. Epic.

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  7/24/2023 - hajoha wrote: 95 Points

  Giacomo Conterno Barolo Francia 2012.
  Denne er "in the zone" nå.
  Svært tiltalende med begynnende modningstoner.
  Klokkerent og meget sexy miks av frukt og spice.
  Slank men dyp munnfølelse.
  Teksturen er helt sublim.
  Høy konsentrasjon og pen friskhet.
  Nydelig balanse.
  Drikker supert nå og vil nok fortsatt ha en lang positiv utvikling.
  Meget lang fast finish med markante modne tanniner.
  Topp topp. 95p

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  5/7/2023 - Momberto wrote: 97 Points

  Excellent

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  4/21/2023 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 94 Points

  125ml coravin from magnum at 67PM. Pre-masterclass quickie drink. Drank in Zalto Burg glass.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour with garnet rim. Legs.
  Nose is clean, tight and needed 20mins to get going, medium intensity, with aromas of earth, iron, blood meat, dark rose petal, dark red plum fruit, ripe red cherry. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, solid high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14.5%), grippy powerfully structured high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with mouth-coating flavours of dark red plums, ripe red cherries, dark meatiness, ferrous iron earth. Long big power finish that lingers with a silken quality and classic sour red cherry.
  Very very good quality. Power with poise. Tannic but still manages to coat the mouth in a silken rather than brutal fashion. Years ahead.

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