2019 Comm. G.B. Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero

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  12/5/2023 - diggydan wrote: 94 Points

  Remains the most fruit-deficient widely admired wine I know.
  
  This one had enough fruit, tonight, to be very good. Beautiful expansive nose and the palate is some dark cherry on top of tar, mint and rose. Very nicely structured, big but elegant and lean.
  
  The moderate fruit expression makes all the difference in the world. $138 at Antonio Quattro Uomini cellarraider night.

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  11/30/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Piemonte: Truffles instead of Turkey; 11/23/2023-12/2/2023 (Barolo, Barbaresco, Alto Piemonte and of course Alba): This is always one of my most favorite wines and while I appreciate everything Fabio does this one is particularly unique and special. There’s more herbal style to it. A touch drier. Still quite pretty and yet here I feel it is the fruit and the herbs that come together and create an even more interesting wine. I used the word spectacular a few times in my notes. Perhaps again - spectacular.

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  11/17/2023 - connorpksmith Likes this wine: 96 Points

  PnP at Red Hen in DC. Drank over 2 hours. Boy, am I glad I have a lot of these to enjoy over the years! So far, I've been very impressed with the '19 vintage of Monvigliero. It's much brighter and smoother than other recent vintages, and it possesses the refined level of acidity that I love in Barolos. While it doesn't have the depth of the '16 Monvig, it still possesses all the consistent qualities of these Burlotto bottlings. I would put the '19 just behind the '16, and a notch or two above any other vintage I've had the pleasure of enjoying over the past few years. 96

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  10/27/2023 - SARED Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Translucent, pale strawberry, cherry, cherry pits, a light veil of fine tannin. Finished with drying tannin and bitter cherry pits. Tasted about its 14% without any sign of heat. Reminds me of a more ethereal 2016 Vajra BDV I remember in youth. Haunting, beautiful, elegant.

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  10/2/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The '19 Monvigliero was impressive and super aromatic, quite a contrast to some other '19 Barolo which I have found to be quite austere. On the palate, I thought the '19 was a bit stricter, but the aromatics are so pretty right now that it'd be a shame to miss out on trying a bottle now before letting the remainder rest.
  
  The nose really soared out of the glass with red strawberry fruit, fresh tropical and blood orange fruit, wild herbs, candied red floral tones, menthol, and herbal tea. It has those signature, exotic Burlotto Monvigliero aromatics, with the one thing I didn't note in this bottle being the olive tapenade note that I got in a lot of prior vintages. The aromatics here are so unique, but having tasted the '19 Alessandria Monvigliero the night before, there is common ground as the red fruit, red floral, and mint notes are the core of both wines. The Burlotto's aromatics have a number of more exotic notes in addition to this red fruit, red floral, and mint/menthol core.
  
  On the palate, the wine is medium in body with quite a bit of tannic heft by this wine's standards, but the tannins are very finely grained. There is a clear stem influence immediately, with wild herbal tones on entry, with sweet red floral and strawberry notes along with tropical fruit notes coming later. The wine is a touch lighter on the palate than you'd expect in this vintage / compared to the aromatics, lacking a bit in terms of concentration vs. what I recall of the 2016. Sweet red floral, herbal, and exotic spice notes linger on the finish.
  
  The '19 Monvigliero is a great wine, although based on this single glass at least, I think it falls a bit short of the complexity & concentration of the 2016 vintage.
  
  One remark I thought of when tasting this wine is that, a "knock" on the Burlotto Monvigliero is it seems to taste largely the same every year, as opposed to say Bartolo Mascarello, where the wine always seems to reflect the vintage's characteristics clearly. That's a crazy thing to knock Burlotto for, because the quality of this wine has been so high each year, including in difficult years like 2018. But I think the stem influence here is so unique within Barolo, and so influential to the aromatics, that it overwhelms many of the vintage differences. It'd be interesting to do a vertical of this wine to test this theory.

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