2018 Sottimano Langhe Nebbiolo

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 88.8 points

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  2/26/2024 - SMHalps Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I'm just stunned at how much I enjoyed this wine. I shared it with some friends at an Indian restaurant and it was a big hit.

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  2/23/2023 - sleepyhaus wrote:

  My last of these, and drinking fairly well right now. Opens feeling a bit over the hill but improves over the course of the evening. I'd say drink these over the next 2 years as this isn't a particularly strong vintage.

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  2/12/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  So delicious young, maybe not as complex but given that the single vineyards don't quite seem to come around (although my exploration there is not yet done) this just might be the answer. I think keep drinking at a steady rate to see if it ever and/or when goes to sleep.

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  10/15/2022 - Outplaying wrote:

  From a magnum. Darker fruit tones, like blackberry and blueberry. I didn’t find this to be too tannic, like a lot of the previous notes, but there is fairly high acidity in the wine and it is better with food. Solid, but not a memorable vintage of this for me.

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  3/11/2022 - FamousWine Does not like this wine:

  100% Nebbiolo. 14% abv. Tasting the 2016 vintage was a disappointment (flawed bottle I guess) and today's experience, in front of this 2018, is not much more pleasant. Despite one hour of aeration, the wine is completely mute and unreadable: no aroma, or very few, neither on the nose nor on the palate. After a longer time in the carafe, it gets a little more appealing but I put the bottle aside preferring to see it again the next day. On day 2, it's hardly better. The slightly warm nose presents herbaceous aromas of cherries, strawberries, potpourri of dried rose petals, orange juice and a hint of slate minerality. In the mouth, the attack finally looks more interesting than the day before but the following is not at the expected level. The aromatic intensity is so so weak: rose water, some strawberries, a few bitter red berries and a bit of herbal notes. Everything seems diluted and nothing seems really coherent. The body is light to medium with powerful and dusty tannins. Not easy to enjoy this bottle as seen. Another defective one or just in an awful spot right now? I'm afraid Sottimano is over for me.
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