1998 Giorgio Pelissero Barbaresco Vanotu

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  10/16/2023 - rawdealbuffy Likes this wine:

  Random wine shop find on clearance. Cork was clean and wine appeared to be well stored. Gorgeous aromatics. Balsamic, dried mushroom, tar, and chai. On the palate dried cherry, balsamic reduction, morel, rose water jelly. Fully resolved tannin. Medium acid. Expansive mid-palate. Held up after about two hours. More intense morel and candycap mushroom nose. Really quite blown away.

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  8/17/2020 - Drinks Mak wrote: 93 Points

  Pnp. Brick red color, fading rim. Excellent nose with deep, intense black currant, licorice, minerals. Beautiful & maturing nebbiolo wines. Leather, fresh herbs, chewy tannis with good acidity. Very good barbaresco. Can age more than 10 years. Tasted again after 24 hrs, Licorice aftertaste dominates.
  
  磚紅色，周邊顏色淡化。有非常優雅，深度的黑加侖子，甘草，礦物香氣。剛熟成，柔順的 Nebbiolo. 口感有皮革，新鮮香料，清脆丹寧並有非常秀麗的酸度，可喝 4-5小時，可以再存10年+。24小時後再試餘下半瓶，但有明顯的甘草的收結。

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  6/25/2018 - fozzibaer Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I liked this wine a lot, this matured very well. Aged Nebbiolo always reminds of a nice cup of tea. Here as well. Everything was well integrated and the wine had a great structure.

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  1/15/2017 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  This took every bit of 5 hours of aeration in decanter before it began to uncoil; really no fruit of any kind until then. The color shows little sign of age. Once this had opened up, the nose was nicely complex, still quite vibrant, with equal parts spice, soil and red/black fruits. There's nothing that comes through as modern here, save a little darkness to the fruit (as compared to those staunchly traditional, perhaps). That said, this medium-bodied effort really surprised me once it was fully open, because in the first moments the cork had been pulled and this was poured to decanter, it seemed dead as could be. I will give my next one 4-5 hours in decanter, at least, and will likely open sometime in the next 5-6 years. Secondaries still, nothing tertiary yet. Good>Very good; great acidity and overall balance. recommended
  
  Served non-blind; cork 3/4 soaked, terrific fill. Modest, fine, sediment.
  
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  9/22/2014 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  The modernist Barbaresco of Pelissero, aged for 24 months in barriques, of which 70-80% are new. Served after a few hours of breathing.
  
  Dark, surprisingly deep and almost opaque color - very atypical for a Nebbiolo - with deep orange rim. The nose is quite dark-toned, somewhat developed and a bit smoky with aromas of leather, dried herbs, some gravelly earth, a little bit of sour cherry and a hint of savory wood spice. The wine is dry, full-bodied and rather soft on the palate with almost completely resolved medium tannins and moderately high, yet somewhat soft acidity. There are flavors of dried blackcurrants, leather, juicy dark cherry, some sweet oak spice, a little bit of dried roses and a hint of developed dried fruit complexity. The dark-toned finish is long, rich and with brooding flavors of chocolate, mocha, tar, ripe dark berries, some alcohol heat and a hint of leathery, dried fruit complexity. The tannins feel more pronounced towards the end of the aftertaste, lending a moderately astringent touch to the finish.
  
  A nicely developed example of Vanotú, yet the wine's obvious modernist leanings are still quite pronounced, even after 16 years. Apparently the wine needs even more age to integrate its at times even disturbingly obvious new oak character, but that isn't a problem, as the wine seems to develop at a quite glacial pace. There is surprisingly little of tertiary characteristics here now and if this had been served blind, I would've guessed it to be probably half as old. Given the wine's deep color, pronounced new oak character and hints of blackcurrants, I might've been at loss whether this is actually a Nebbiolo or not, to be honest. A good Barbaresco for sure, but definitely not mindblowing nor even that special. I guess this might be better after 10-15 more years - if the new oak character is gone by then.

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