2001 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric dël Fiasc

Community Tasting Notes (95) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  1/8/2024 - japat Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is the 3rd bottle we've opened, at 2-3 year intervals, and the best by far. The tannins are very strong and somewhat overpowering for the fruit, but overall the wine is delicious. I get plums, cherries and vanilla on the nose, with hints of herbs - maybe a little anise? The taste is mildly astringent with tannins, but fruity and complex. The finish is long, ending with slightly bitter notes along with the lingering cherries and some warm spice, perhaps cinnamon. We'll save the last 3 in our cellar for another 5 years or so.

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  11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Daniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): My contribution. Dark, brilliant jewelled semi-transparent ruby. Nose is immediately seductive but in an unexpected alpine cheese first note before some beautifully subtle alpine berries cut in. Wow, this really is unfolding into multiple layers very quickly. It would have been better with a 2-hour decant.. as it proved two hours after pouring...but the sommelier at Michelin*** Otto Y Mezzo overruled me (Lesson = trust your judgement over a sommelier). Palate is lightly jewelled red/black fruit but overbalanced by still too young tannin. Very promising resonance and reverberance on the finish and it improves but not enough to merit opening a bottle for another 5-8 years. 91 but will go to 94-95 at its apogee.
  
  I would love to decant my next bottle for 5-8 hours.

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  10/15/2023 - forgetmenot Likes this wine:

  Very nice, tertiary notes with freshness and good length. Rose, smooth tanins.

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  8/16/2023 - awever Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Almost perfect, lots of secondary and tertiary aromas, mature but not old, GREAT

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  7/9/2023 - Lipsman wrote: 93 Points

  Showing well. Smelled of Madeira at first. Needed an hour in a decanter. Supple, still with a touch of tannin and balanced acidity that give it some grip. Licorice and cherries in a long finish. Very good. This is fully mature. Drink up. Now - 2028. From a 750ml.

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