1989 Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Riserva Granbussia

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  6/2/2023 - Dunwall Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Strong sweet-balsamic taste, delicious but hard to drink more than one glass in a row bc the taste is so strong

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  2/25/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  The nose was not so exciting, but the palate showed great. For a higher rating, though, this would have needed more complexity and a better, cleaner nose. Certainly, at it’s peak, this is one to drink up.
  
  TN: The nose is a bit muddy with some soy notes. But the palate is much better. Melted tannins, bright but round acidity and a beautiful aroma composition with red fruit, herbs, minerality, tar, roses. The whole Barolo range and all delivered in great precision.
  
  Decanting: Opened 5 hours before consumption and quickly double decanted back in the bottle. No extensive decanting needed.

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  2/18/2023 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 95 Points

  nice and elegant, fresh, herbs, sous bois, you can fell that this stuff is aged but it does not disturb the nose… red fruited. fruit rather on the background though, tertiary aromas dominate the nose. very enjoyable right now. no wood, no bullshit, honest, raw and precise. it seemed to be that the nose was lacking a bit of tension over time. others on the table did not have this impression tho.
  
  on the palate this wine has still a lot to offer unless the age that he has, such a nice drink flow, the tannins are really well integrated and refined. high quality stuff.
  
  drink now, but maybe can wait for another some more years.

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  2/18/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 98 Points

  Tasted blind as part of a small Sangiovese vs Nebbiolo event. Mature and advanced bouquet, marginally beef juicy initially even. But having given this a bit of space to breath, this dissipated leaving you with nice fresh herbs, fine cedar wood notes, spice and rose water, tar, tobacco and barnyard notes and defined red berry fruit core. The palate was also mature and well-developed, but manages to perfectly marry juicy freshness with advanced, settled aromas. The tannins have molten away and are seamlessly integrated into fabric. Long and engaging finish. Absolutely outstanding and a top-3 Barolo I’ve ever had.

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  2/18/2023 - J_H Likes this wine: 95 Points

  - tasted blind
  - Is red fruity, iodic, rose hips, herbs, more and more ripe red fruit.
  - On the palate it is lean, puristic and traditional, very much rosehip and rosewater, flint. Not totally explosive on the nose, but very nice drinking.
  - Extremely aged and silky texture, tannins are still there but nicely melted and jucy and acidity is still very present. The finish is long und in this puristic style just as it should be. But unfortunately tension (for rating higher points) is somehow missing in the mid-palate to the finish. Maybe passed the peak point a bit?
  - 95 points

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