Jay Kline

9.5

Opened a few hours prior to service and enjoyed over the course of an hour. The 1999 Le Rocche del Falletto pours a deep garnet color with a translucent core; medium+ viscosity with no staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is developing with beautiful notes of black cherry, raspberry, roses, tar, talcum powder, dried herbs, a touch of leather, some gravelly earth and a kiss of warm spices. On the palate, the wine is bone dry with high tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the note. The finish is long. I know it’s splitting hairs but I think I preferred this over the ‘96 Asili Riserva that we enjoyed alongside. There just seemed to be a bit more oomf. A lovely pairing with controfiletto di wagyu. Drink now through 2049. — 9 days ago

Mark Rosse

9.6

Decanted for 4 hours. In a spectacular way at the moment. Tannins resolved. Elegance and restrained energy — 3 months ago

Ashish Pant

9.5

Wow! Go for it! — 5 months ago

Nagib Nasr

9.1

Amazing for its age. — 7 months ago

Mark Rosse

9.5

Close 2nd. Delish — 2 months ago

Conrad Green

9.6

Tangy dark fruit. Great purity. On the palate a tart powerful but clean middle. Sour cherry, violets, iron, tang. Great stuff — 3 months ago

with Matt and David

Andy Stabile

8.9

Should kept this in the bottle for a while.
Once it opened up, it just started to get interesting.

Touch of bitter acid, clove, oak all kept this from a higher rating…
— 4 months ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.1

Medium light ruby , garnet wide light garnet rim . On opening this was very fruit forward , strawberry, orange rind, raspberry and with some floral, liquorice and spice hints . On the palate again fruit forward , sweet strawberry , raspberry and some red cherry . Just balanced alcohol with fresh acidity . Tannins were quite rounded and sweet , it seemed to lack a little structure . Coming back to this a day later there is much more tannin which is ripe but gritty and more structure noticable . Bizarre how this happens quite often with young Barolo, they appear lighter and more fruit forward than they actually are on opening . A bit more serious too, showing more nuances . Herbal hints , with lightly smoky darker cherry , liquorice and stony, mineral hints on the medium length finish. You could drink this now (if you do what I did last night and just pop and pour), but will be better in 5 years or so and last well a further 5-10. — 3 months ago

Eliot Hamerman

9.4

Drinking nicely — 4 months ago

with Cheryl

Ron Siegel

9.3

This was holding up nicely showing red cherry, berry, leather, savory spices, floral with rose petal & tobacco leaf — 6 months ago