By: Ryan Tedder
We were blessed to drink this wine earlier this week. It was a life changer for me. Below are my tasting notes…drink this wine if you find it! Cheers!
Site: Pale garnet medium saturated core going to an orange mid-size rim variation with bricking at the edge. Light amount of silty sediment.
Nose: Initially: Slight notes of VA (nail-polish, shoe polish, varnish) and Brett (dried leather), brown sugar, walnuts, and dried roses with a touch of tar and maple and almost no fruit but musky aromas of wet and dried leaves and mushroom.
After about 40 minutes: The aromas became intoxicating and complex with sweet tobacco, saddle leather, truffle, sandalwood, maple, cigar wrapper, bourbon, almond, dried raspberry, red currant, and marello cherry, red licorice, dried gravel, dried leaves, pine needles, truffle, and and and… it was almost overwhelming…
Palate: The palate mirrored the nose on all the flavors but initially it had a still present tannic tug on the palate and a note of stale black tea. With air the tannins unfolded and created lift for all of the savory nuance of the wine in the attack, fruit and spice in the mid-palate, and umami and dried forest flavors that characterized the never-ending finish.
Overall impression – Holy shit that was amazing wine!!! The best Barolo with age I have ever had without question.