2006 Fratelli Brovia Barolo Villero

Community Tasting Notes (39) Median Score: 93 points

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  5/13/2024 - devillighter wrote: 94 Points

  Decanted (very little sediment) and consumed immediately over several hours in a Grassl Cru. Drank well from the start. Intense somewhat exotic nose lots of spice and brambles. Palate is a classic Barolo profile. I found it quite giving for an ‘06. Lots of fruit left and not overly tannic. Clearly lots of life ahead, but drinking nicely today.

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  12/13/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Opened and decanted 2 hours before serving. Fairly deep ruby. Smoky black cherry and blueberry fruit, tobacco leaf, and melted asphalt. Medium weight, still quite tannic. A somber wine that could still use some time in the bottle.

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  12/5/2022 - Devlon Moore wrote:

  Granted, Villero is not my favorite expression of Barolo but Brovia has never been anything but “ok” for me. Really horizontal bulky Barolo fruit and a little bit of cut behind it. Just not much to it. Perhaps an odd strange? Hold.

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  7/21/2022 - Iskama Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful, translucent, shimmering magenta-ruby color. Smells divine - complex, black cherry and raspberry fruit, giving way to some aged lavender and spice aromas I associate with the vineyard. The palate, though… Great on PnP, feel like I have a “clean” bottle. Then this slightly funky animal musk flavor rears its head after an hour or so in the glass. I swear this same musky flavor has ruined some other bottles of Brovia in this age range , a few 2010s and another 2006, it’s not cork taint but I just don’t know what it is… muddies the wine and is hard to get past. Left half the bottle for day 2 and thankfully it had receded quite a lot, and was just lurking a bit in the background. I could see a really pure, beautiful wine hiding behind it that I’d score a 95 but with all the baggage this gets a 92.

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  7/4/2022 - spillwine wrote: 94 Points

  Très bon, semble encore très jeune.

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