2011 Pertinace (Cantina Vignaioli) Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  6/20/2016 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 88 Points

  Monday Night Blinds (Home (Noe st)): (blind)
  
  Visual:
  - medium minus ruby to a garnet rim.
  
  Nose:
  - ripe dark blueberries
  - blackcurrant
  - slight leather
  - development - bruised apples
  - slight brett
  - slight oak influence - faint clove.
  
  Palate:
  - dry
  - medium bodied
  - high alcohol - 14.5% (actually 14%)
  - elevated acid
  - high tannins
  
  Light color with high tannins takes me to Italy.
  Slight oak treatment suggests a modern Barolo/Barbaresco or modern Brunello.
  I think it's a lighter wine, more structure-heavy, so I'm guessing Barolo/Barbaresco.
  Seeme heftier and darker fruit, so I'm guessing Barolo.
  
  88 points.
  
  2012 Barolo, not single vineyard, ~$60.
  Actually: 2011 Pertinace Barbaresco

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  2/8/2016 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 92 Points

  Monday night blinds (Home (Noe st)): This is my favorite style of Piedmont Nebbiolo - complex, subdued oak, lighter in body, aromatic, and with chewy tannins. Contemplative nose, viscerally enjoyable palate, persistent and changing finish.
  
  Between 9 and 9.5
  
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  Full Notes:
  (blind)
  
  Moderate minus ruby to a garnet rim.
  Nose:
  -Elevated intensity aromatics of cassis juice, sweet tobacco, leather, dry earth, savory salumi.
  -Some vague sweet oak, but well-integrated at this point (used barrels or a tiny percentage new oak).
  -Shows definite development on the nose, but the color still has some ruby.
  
  Palate
  - medium minus body - the overall feel is light
  - high alcohol - 14.5% (close: 14%)
  - high acidity
  - high tannins (satisfyingly chewy)
  - persistent finish.
  
  Conclusions:
  Despite my initial impression of the nose being black-fruited (taking me to a cab/merlot type wine, structurally this is Nebbiolo. It's too light of a wine to be a Brunello or Chianti (if Sangiovese is this structured, it should be medium plus to full-bodied).
  Barolo vs. Barbaresco - it's a coin-flip, but to me this is slightly darker and heftier. Less "pretty". I'm guessing Barolo.
  Vintage: 2005 - there's some development and it shows very ripe fruit.
  
  Laterals:
  Sangiovese - too structurally over-weighted. not red-fruited.
  Brunello - same. too high structure.
  Barbaresco - slightly darker/heftier/less pretty.
  
  Actual:
  2011 Barbaresco - Pertinace, 14%
  (my read on the development was off).

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  5/23/2014 - FamilyLarsson wrote: 85 Points

  Drack till lunch i Barbaresco.
  Fina körsbärstoner, aceton och mineral. I smaken redan hyfsat utvecklat med fina körsbär, mineral, ren fin syra och tanniner, men lite väl tunt och kort.
  Kanske inte riktigt rättvisst att dricka det till lunch mellan provningarna hos Luciano Sandrone och sedan Gaja.

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  5/23/2014 - Ramberg wrote: 86 Points

  At a restaurant in Barbaresco for lunch.
  Dark cherry, morello cherries, touch of smoke, oak and glue.
  On the palate this is already developed, with fine tannins, high acidity, red berries, sand & earth.
  A bit thin and on the light side.
  A fresh and fine lightweight Barbaresco.
  (85 - 87)

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