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12/30/2020 - Jd6725 wrote: flawed
My experience is Exactly like Forceberry's. Super dark color. Crazy drying tannins and acidity. Barely subsided. Just a touch of cork taint but I think there may have been something else going on here. Some combo of TCA and VA. Hard to say. Completely muted nose for a while. Hours in the decanter didn't change much, next day about the same but a little softer.
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5/31/2017 - forceberry wrote: flawed
The bottle is labeled "Export - Barolo Classico".
Luminous but atypically very dark black cherry color that is barely transparent at all. many people in the tasting doubted that this wine was 100% Nebbiolo, judging by the appearance. The nose is old, very much developed and somewhat smoky with pungent nutty oxidation and somewhat stuffy aromas of wet loamy soil, some fermented dark forest fruits and a hint of red berry compote. The wine feels full-bodied, rich and surprisingly lively on the palate with high acidity and very grippy, mouthdrying tannins. The flavors are quite austere and bitter with notes of smoke, licorice and loamy soil with hints of tar and mushrooms. The midpalate is quite devoid of fruit. The finish is quite tightly-knit with grippy, mouthdrying tannins and rather austere and rough tertiery flavors of leafy autumnal notes, sous-bois, some sour cherry bitterness, a hint of tar and a touch of cardboard.
A weird old Barolo that doesn't feel all that sound. First of all, the color is way off for a Barolo clocking over 60 years of age. Secondly, the wine might be suffering from a mild case of cork, because the wine doesn't seem thoroughly oxidized, flat or dead, but the wine seems to be more or less all about tertiary flavors and there is no fruit left here. Furthermore, at times there are light, musty notes here and there, becoming more pronounced towards the end of the aftertaste, making me think that this wine is suffering from a not-so-obvious TCA taint. Although not completely unpleasant, I'm pushed to mark this wine off as defective.
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