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Pio Cesare Barolo 1997 (auction price: A$120-ish)

pio cesare barolo.gifBold, muscular, perfumed. Stick your nose in it and stewy, sickly, rotted-rose smells hit you but you know, they're not that off-putting - especially as the palate is like walking along an old country road, and is just as evocative. Old earth, old asphalt, lifted florals, the merest suggestion of leathered, preserved meats and chocolate, and then tannins that are firm but luscious. Long. Developing, but still strong and rigidly intact. Drinking well now, but it will be better in five or ten or 15 years. Drink: 2008-2022. 95 points.
Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 05:34PM by Registered Commentercampbell mattinson | Comments1 Comment | References2 References

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Sampled 07/06 with dinner. After a good decant this opened well with a lovely earthy nose but lacked real persistence and power on the palate. I good wine but barolo gets a whole lot better than this. I don't believe this will improve much more than its current state of evolution.
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