1983 Azienda Bricco Rocche (Ceretto) Barolo Brunate
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4/19/2023 - thesternowl wrote: 91 Points
Happy 40th Holly! I opened this about five hours prior to service and poured into a ship’s decanter. The cork was nearly perfect with some saturation about 1/3 up the length of the cork. This bottle of the 1983 Azienda Bricco Rocche (Ceretto) Barolo “Brunate” currently pours a deep garnet color with significant browning and rim variation. Loads of fine sediment contribute to an opaque core. On the nose the wine is vinous. Predominately desiccated cherry, old leather bound books, tobacco, dried roses, tar, mushrooms and earth. On the palate, the wine is dry…the tannins have mostly integrated however they’re still showing up in the medium category. Acid is medium+. The notes from the nose are confirmed. The finish is long and satisfying. This bottle of ‘83 was very much alive but not particularly pretty to look at and drinks like a wine that has been well down the path towards its eventual expiration for many years now. That being said, the few of us more accustomed to drinking older wines found it quite lovely while others enjoyed a small glass and moved onto a more youthful bottle. Drink’em if you got’em and enjoy the twilight of this wine’s life.
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11/17/2020 - glou.sf wrote: flawed
Tasted blind. There was something off about this bottle. Disjointed nose with acetone and mushrooms. Much better on the palate, though.
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2/22/2016 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Pale faded garnet-orange-brown; Old dried cherries, orange peel, mullberry with a hint of vanilla still on the palate (aged 50% new oak 50% old oak 12 mo.). really lovely with cutting acidity, fine chalky tannins that are smoothed out now. Seems like it's in a very good spot right now! Based on the shape it's in, I guessed '93 Barolo (blind).
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8/9/2014 - olracx62 wrote: flawed
Brick-red color at the eye; a short decanting confirms a maderized taste where acididity has gone with all these years and a smoothed liquorice and forest hint is left. Definitely over the cliff due to bad cellaring if compared to my other bottle (92)
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1/31/2014 - olracx62 wrote: 92 Points
A real emotion this 1983 Bricco Rocche. Not only for the wine but also for the memories of those years. Red-orange at the eye and no need for decanting thanks to my 75cl baloon. Most tannins are still there but most acididity has gone with all these years and the taste is pleasantly smoothed . Vintage oak prevails but still clear hints of smoothed liquorice and forest. An experience. Long finish. Great stuff from 1983 up to 2014. Maybe a couple of years or more ago it could have been more powerful but still truly enjoyable.
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