2019 Ferrando Carema White Label (Etichetta Bianca)

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95 points

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  4/14/2024 - Mag357 wrote:

  Upon opening, I had great hopes after reading the CT reviews, and reading descriptors online about the "profundity of Nebbiolo" in this wine, I liked the pale color but alas it felt like grape juice with some alcohol, very sweet, and very simple. After 24 hours of air, the grape juice wanted to become wine, and it did eventually, tannins, grip and some acids appeared. While this was much better on day two, I thought the wine shop descriptor of "a wine of breathtaking grace" could have been funny if the wine did not cost 85 bucks. Disinformation age or a root day ? Roll the dice gentlemen !

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  2/10/2024 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 95 Points

  My first Ferrando Carema. Popped and poured like an hour later. Pours a light ruby color. Nose is perfumed and light and wonderful - crunchy red fruits - pomegranate and cranberries and a bit of wild strawberry, a citrus squirt and some rose petals, some spices and savory alpine herbs. Very juicy and lively with a wonderful red cinnamon streak that runs all the way through the finish. Maybe a bit of coffee. The palate is more clenched and tart - crunchy and red, translucent - high acid and fine tannins. This shows a dollop of the savory herbs and some earth in the middle and tart fruits and savory herbs and stony minerality along with the fine tannins on the long savory finish. This needs years. Let’s see what some air does. Nose - 5-5.5+/6, Palate - 4.5-5+/6, Finish - 4.5+/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1-1.5+/2 = 15-17+/20 (with 16-18/20 potential.)
  
  Day 2: nose may have shut down a tad - still showing translucent and pure: beautiful and crunchy red fruits, lots of rose petals, cinnamon and savory herbs. The palate has opened nicely now and is just heartbreaking - light and pure and translucent and delicous. - wild strawberry and red cherry and cranberry fruit, nice cinnamon and spice, more rose florals and a serious herbal and stony streak that builds into the end palate. Not a hair out of place in the mouth. The fruit and flavors darken a bit through the middle into the finish. Textbook high altitude Nebbiolo - this is exactly what us nerds think of and want from the grape & Alto Piemonte. The finish shows a pulse of red and dark cherry fruit along with the savory herb and stone streak - which becomes more assertive as the finish goes on. Driven by acid with just hints of tannin now. Wow. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5/20.

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  12/31/2023 - zscheiner wrote:

  Super floral nose. Tart red fruits, dried flowers, significant back end tannin. But still delicious. No rush to open these.

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