1965 Villadoria Barbaresco Riserva Speciale

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  12/30/2019 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  Bottled in a 0,72-liter bottle. This is "Barbaresco Juta", aka. the bottle is wrapped in a burlap pouch. Tasted half-blind.
  
  Translucent brownish Oloroso-bronze color with a straw-yellow rim. Sweet, surprisingly sweet and confusingly cheesy nose with aromas of kirsch, plum liqueur, some Appenzeller cheese, a little bit of raspberry marmalade candy and a hint of orange rind. Odd and not particularly Nebbiolo-like. The wine is medium-to-moderately full-bodied, sweet-toned and textural on the palate with flavors of sweet balsamico character, some wizened cherries, a little bit of rusted iron, light notes of cooked rose hips, sweet hints of strawberries and redcurrant jam and a touch of sanguine iron. High in acidity with quite resolved, textural and gently grippy tannins. The finish is gently grippy with savory, tertiary flavors of sanguine iron, cranberries, some gamey meat, a little bit of redcurrant, light balsamico notes of acetic roughness and a hint of strawberry jam.
  
  An otherwise quite pleasant albeit rather tertiary Barbaresco, but the nose is just plain weird. I can handle the sweet, marmaladey and liqueuer-ish notes, but the cheesy note of Appenzeller was just something I really didn't expect. All in all, if you are ok with the nose, this is an acceptable old Nebbiolo. Nothing exceptional and perhaps nothing to write home about, but nothing to be disappointed in either.

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