Birthday Barolo.
13 year old wine... and it's mellowed out, but you can tell it's an average wine.
Buy the house vs the year.
Birthday Barolo.
13 year old wine... and it's mellowed out, but you can tell it's an average wine.
Buy the house vs the year.
Aug 9th, 2023
This is odd. I had 3 bottles of this. 2 years ago, I opened the first. It seemed scorchy, bitterly tannic, and devoid of fruit. I gave bottle number 2 to friend with a caveat about my first bottle. This is the 3rd. I’m making a slowly-braised braised beef dish that calls for a whole bottle of wine, so I opened this to cook with. I tasted it just for laughs. Stunned. It’s really good. Sure, it’s still pretty tannic, but there’s a lot of aged Nebbiolo fruit, earth, a little tar. Good acids. Conclusion? First bottle was somehow flawed, though I’m not sure what flaw would make one bottle so stripped of fruit and scorchy and the next perfectly fine. Not Brett, not TCA. I don’t get it. I guess I’ll just enjoy the surprise!
This is odd. I had 3 bottles of this. 2 years ago, I opened the first. It seemed scorchy, bitterly tannic, and devoid of fruit. I gave bottle number 2 to friend with a caveat about my first bottle. This is the 3rd. I’m making a slowly-braised braised beef dish that calls for a whole bottle of wine, so I opened this to cook with. I tasted it just for laughs. Stunned. It’s really good. Sure, it’s still pretty tannic, but there’s a lot of aged Nebbiolo fruit, earth, a little tar. Good acids. Conclusion? First bottle was somehow flawed, though I’m not sure what flaw would make one bottle so stripped of fruit and scorchy and the next perfectly fine. Not Brett, not TCA. I don’t get it. I guess I’ll just enjoy the surprise!
Dec 5th, 2020Nose has menthol, scorched earth, dried leaves, and little fruit. Lean and mean in the mouth. Austere and dried out. Disappointing.
Nose has menthol, scorched earth, dried leaves, and little fruit. Lean and mean in the mouth. Austere and dried out. Disappointing.
Dec 31st, 2018
A nice simple Barolo not complex but not too fruity. A perfect pairing with a meal but not one I'd want to savor on its own. Could probably sit for a few years.
A nice simple Barolo not complex but not too fruity. A perfect pairing with a meal but not one I'd want to savor on its own. Could probably sit for a few years.
Jun 9th, 2016
Barolo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
