Archive for the ‘Nebbiolo’ Category
Stefano Farina Barolo 2003
Posted by Shea in $40-$60, Good, Italian Wine, Nebbiolo on May 11th, 2008
The recent lack of updates is due to some crazy hours at my firm of late. Hopefully things will calm down and the updates will again flow regularly! I had this a while ago, but didn’t write about it until now largely because it was a pretty disappointing wine. Mostly blackberry and black current on the nose, the herbaciousness was a bit green and the acidity tangy and unbalanced. Barolo rarely provides such simple and unpleasant flavours. Enjoyable enough for a $20 bottle, this is something to pass by at $45.
Poderi Luigi Einaudi Barolo 1997
Posted by Shea in $60+, Excellent, Italian Wine, Nebbiolo on April 30th, 2008
Barolo is wonderful wine, especially when given a few years to ruminate. When aged Barolo loses some of its big tannic muscle, but gains smoothness and elegance. This decade old Einaudi Barolo was made in a traditional style by one of my favourite Piemontese producers.
Damilano Barolo 2001
Posted by Shea in $40-$60, Italian Wine, Nebbiolo, Very Good on April 2nd, 2008
It’s been a while since the last update, but that’s what happens during exam and paper season! I tasted this wine at the Vancouver International Wine Festival, but I had an opportunity to have a bottle recently and I thought it would be interesting to compare the experiences. It was an interesting experiment comparing impressions for the same wine of the same vintage but consumed merely weeks apart. It perhaps says something about our perceptions of taste, but I am planning a future more in-depth post about that so I’ll leave that idea as a nascent thought.
