This is drinking well now - rose petal, dried flowers, plum and spiced and much mellowed tannin. Time to drink up though as the fruits are likely to fade from here.
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Very grippy tannins that might be tamed with another 5-10 years. Decanted for a couple of hours and not much change. Nice underlying structure and fruit, but I'm not sure the fruit will survive the time needed to mellow the tannic grip.
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Sampled over two evenings, with amazingly little variation. Restrained, simple nose of saddle leather and a touch of violets. A dense, hard-to-approach palate, with clipped, tight fruit and dominant tannins. I'd love to say it is a question of time, but I have had many shy Barolo that bloomed a few years later, yet enticed so little out of this 10 year-old.
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6/25/2023 - LayTan Likes this wine:
This is drinking well now - rose petal, dried flowers, plum and spiced and much mellowed tannin. Time to drink up though as the fruits are likely to fade from here.
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11/4/2015 - lifebreath wrote: 86 Points
Very grippy tannins that might be tamed with another 5-10 years. Decanted for a couple of hours and not much change. Nice underlying structure and fruit, but I'm not sure the fruit will survive the time needed to mellow the tannic grip.
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1/12/2015 - JonnyG wrote: 90 Points
Sampled over two evenings, with amazingly little variation. Restrained, simple nose of saddle leather and a touch of violets. A dense, hard-to-approach palate, with clipped, tight fruit and dominant tannins. I'd love to say it is a question of time, but I have had many shy Barolo that bloomed a few years later, yet enticed so little out of this 10 year-old.
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