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Roagna, Barolo Riserva La Rocca e la Pira 1996
A really lifted nose here, vibrant and refreshing: dried red fruit, perfumed leather and spice. Ripe texture on entry, with lovely style. Firm, rich and upright. Balanced, concentrated, fresh and...
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Vietti, Barolo Castiglione 1990
Full garnet red color, paling rim. Ripe, savory and sauvage nose. Grippy, structured, masculine style on the palate, with a wall of tannin and a resulting firm finish. Intense. More than a bit...
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Dante Rivetti, Barbaresco Riserva Bricco de Neueis 1996
Darker cherry red color. Rich, nose: oregeno, fennel, violet, gamebird, camphor. Firm, substantial palate: bing cherry, black cherry, tar and spice notes. Harmonious, vigorous and complex....
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Dario Rocca e Figli, Barbaresco Montestefano 1995
Medium-full red color; dusty hue of maturity at the rim. Warm, soft nose: red cherry, red curry, marjoram, asphalt. Sappy mid-weight palate. Some tannin. Decent acidity. A laid-back Montestafano....
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Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Gallina di Neive 1985
A regal garnet, fade to ochere. Spellbinding nose of antiquity, tar and roses. Hints of roast chestnut and toffee. Panoramic in its dimension, its forest red berry fruit etched in sweeping arcs....
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Poderi Luigi Einaudi, Barolo Costa Grimaldi 1996
Imported by Empson USA, Alexandria VA. Crimson. Cherry pit, shady grove and burning leaf and it’s the last days of autumn. Fine inner sweetness unfurling, zingy and penetrating, and the finish is...
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Cavalier Bartolomeo, Barolo Vigneti Solanotto Altenasso 2000
Garnet color, shades of rust and grit; he spent a lifetime working the land and the smells of earth and smoke now cling to him like armor. The mightiest of cherry fruit and the finish is rustic and...
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Poderi Colla, Barolo Bussia Dardi Le Rose 1997
Imported by Empson USA, Alexandria VA. Crimson. Aerodynamic and impeccably balanced; he stays aloft so long on the palate, a ghost upon a breeze. Rosehips with a surmise of licorice, still some...
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Roagna, Barolo Riserva La Rocca e La Pira 1996
Louis Dressner Selections, New York NY. Twenty years on. Pale ruby. Slight mustiness and then an intoxicating iodine character. The structural motion ripples with ’96 kineticism but the fruit has...
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Dante Rivetti, Barbaresco Bricco de Neueis Riserva 1996
Vinifera Imports, Ronkonkoma NY. Twenty years on. Pale ruby. Solid and pulpy and creased in sweat, like your grandfather’s Pommard. Heirloom-chicken roasted with white truffle and the tertiary...
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Elio Altare, Barolo Brunate 1996
Michael Skurnik Wines, Syosset, NY. Twenty years on. Crimson. Massive fruit anchored to a deep and meaty structure. San Daniele prosciutto and empress plum and twisting below the sheer mass is a...
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Giacomo Borgogno & Figli, Barolo Riserva Pinin 2004
Domaine Select Wine Estates, New York NY. Fruit from parcels Liste, Cannubi, Cannubi San Lorenzo, Fossati, San Pietro delle Viole. Bright ruby. A wine to delight the senses, alluring and precise, an...
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Giacomo Borgogno & Figli, Barolo Pinin 2004
Domaine Select Wine Estates, New York NY. Bright ruby. He’s more definitive and overtly fruited than the Riserva. No loss of terroir expression however; the normale still has his ear to the dirt,...
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Gaja, Langhe Nebbiolo Sorì Tildìn 1997
Twenty years on. Ruby. Ravishing aromas of cherry, menthol, aniseed and underbrush. Lavish and fine-grained but still with a reserve to the redcurrant, tobacco, wild herb and mushroom flavors. The...
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Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia 1997
Imported by Vieux Vins, Vineburg CA. Twenty years on. Ruby. Serralunga’s classic tar and roses profile allied to a spicy calcaire freshness. Has a primordial vinosity, so deep it doesn’t register as...
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Conterno Fantino, Barolo Riserva Sorì Ginestra 1997
Bacchus Importers, Baltimore MD. Twenty years on. Ruby. The aromas are quite dense, tarry and masculine. The palate is strong and sure, with middle flavor of plum and resin and an impressive meaty...
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Domenico Clerico, Arte 1998
Imported by Vin Divino LTD., Chicago IL. Twenty years on. Ruby. Dried fruit, roasting aromas, sottobosco and balsamic. Caramelly lushness on the palate and the finish is all leather and smoke. Now.
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La Ca’ Nova, Barbaresco 2008
Free Run, Seattle WA. Ten years on. Carmine. Sharply sweet cherry and something spriggy, like anise. Ozonic too – like summer rain on a hot pavement. The finish reminds me of those hardy little...
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Azelia, Barolo ‘Bricco Fiasco’ 1998
Imported by Vin Divino LTD., Chicago IL. Twenty years on. Ruby. Tar and roses and a bifurcated blackberry, with fruit on one side and obsidian crystal on the other. Dusty tannin and bone broth and...
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Ca‘ Rozzeria, Barbaresco Neive 2010
Imported by Free Run, Seattle WA. Bright red. Moss, a sweet smokiness and those red raspberries that fall into your hands. Modest in body and flesh but what’s material is here is limpid and inviting....
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