1996 Cascina Morassino Barbaresco Morassino

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92 points

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  7/14/2019 - violistus Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What a difference a decade makes! This beast was a total steal at $31. I had a glass last night, just put the cork back inside, and put it in the fridge overnight. Tonight, it was best at hour 5...
  
  This is both an extraordinarily pretty wine and a wild and crazy animal. Still with ample fruit, the wine shows bright crunchy cranberries and toasted dried strawberries, but also with lots of tertiary aromas and flavors: sous bois, mint(!), truffle, soy, sesame, leather, old library, and dried citrus. A total lifted beauty that only improved with air. If I had another bottle I'd decant 4+ hours. Lovely surprise.

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  12/4/2008 - amgryger wrote:

  Light garnet color with brick colored rim. Funky old world nose of earth, forest floor, mushrooms, tea, and hints of strawberry. On the palate, rose petals, tar, tea and more hints of strawberry. High tannins and acidity with a medium length finish. Re-tasting later in the night, the red fruit showed a little stronger, but overall this wine seems to be moving mostly into its secondary flavors. At the tasting I had mentioned that I had last had it about 5 months ago, when the fruit seemed to be showing better, but it turns out it was actually nearly a year ago. How time flies.

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  1/15/2008 - amgryger wrote:

  Spent a lot of time on this wine. I first tasted on opening and decided not to decant but rather watch it evolve. On the nose, I detected fall leaves, mushrooms, cinammon, and fleeting hints of chocolate. By the third glass a definite strawberry component had opened up. Lithe, supple mouthfeel at the start with flavors of strawberry, rose petals, cinammon with occaisional hints of chocolate and fig that seemed to dance through the midpalate, coming and going at their own will. Finishes out with floral notes, mushrooms, and mouth drying tannins (didn't bother me a bit).

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  12/2/2007 - 5laton wrote: 90 Points

  Ruby in color, turning to garnet at the rim. Nose of strawberry, rose oil, rust, and dried herbs. Medium bodied on the palate with medium (+) to high acidity and flavors of tart red fruits, iron, herbs, and earth. Apparently an old school style here, with no obvious oak-derived flavors or aromas. On first glance this appears to be mature, with middling concentration, but extended airing in the glass reveals some unresolved structure, as well as anise seed aromas and deeper concentration on the palate. On day 2, the wine shows more cranberry, strawberry and anise seed aromatics on the nose, and more gentle palate sweetness. And the finish.....what was inconsequential last night is now a definite head-nodder (mmmmm), though it turns a touch tartaric at the end. Bumping this up to 90. Overall, I don't recommend decanting for more than 15-20 minutes -- this is a delicate, subtle wine that clearly benefits from slow oxygenation. Very tasty, the kind of wine i like to sip over an entire evening and watch it develop.

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