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I'm picking up here where I last left off, halfway through reporting on mostly the 2009 vintage in Barolo. As you can see here, and in my previous report on these wines, the vintage is a bit irregular to say the least with some powerful, structured win...
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History of the grape: Two schools of thought exist as to the origins of Nebbiolo (which means “little fog” either for...
History of the grape: The name means “little sweet one” in Italian. Dolcetto, along with Barbera and Nebbiolo is one ...
History of the grape: Barbera is a native to the Piedmont, where it has been growing for centuries, and is now the fo...
Santa Barbara County is a quiet sanctuary of golden hills and well-groomed vineyards located t...
After 14 years making wine at two world class wineries (Mount Eden Vineyards and The Ojai Vineyar...
Since that time, their dedication has remained the same—the creation of very small-production,...
Quinta de Santa Maria - 21 hectares with grape warietas - Loureno, Arinto (Padernã) and Alvarnho ...
Paolo Barbieri, owner and winemaker of Barbieri Wine Company is focusing on the production of Rho...
The growing season was moderate to cool with only a couple of hot spells in June. The biggest fac...
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La Morra on Snooth
May 2010
A product under the Caymus Vineyards umbrella. Picked this wine up for our 4 year anniversary dinner and the girlfriend and I/we loved it. Right out of the bottle, what a bright and vibrant nose of ripe cherry, plum and spices. In the mouth we found a lot of sweet cherry, red berry, fall spices and rich caramel. The last glass of the bottle reve... Read More
April 2010
No written review
March 2010
Nice berry flavors but I did not like the spice flavors at the end. Read More
February 2010
enjoyable. nothing spectacular, and a little bland compared to a Chardonnay with tons of character like a Sonoma Cutrer...but enjoyable. Read More
May 2009
Well the 2005 Barolos are tasted, and I cant help but think back to what I said ... said ... Eugenio La Serra (La Morra)- sour nose, stinky nose, fleshy nose, very nice nettle notes in the background, really penetrating and pure with a note of heavily used and sweaty work glove, spice, earth fennel and tea, fine balance in the mouth, ripe so... Read More
May 2009
It's late here in Alba and today was a very busy day with the early morning ... ... focusing on the wines of La Morra, Verduno and Castiglione Falletto. Lots of nice wines today and certainly a more promising group that yesterdays wines from Barolo. I haven't had time to go through my notes but after the tasting I did take a look at some of my... Read More
May 2009
I've been documenting much of my days here via posts on the Snooth Forum but to ... from left to right: 1993 La Morra from Rivalta, a 1988 Barolo from Monforte, a 1978 Barolo from Barolo, and finaly a 1974 from who knows. the wines totally outperformed and that was probably due to the fact that they've spent all the life in one place after hav... Read More
May 2009
Well my first full day here started with a shower and nice breakfast before ... ... from the Rivalta area of La Morra. Mauro felt it was from Castiglione Falletto, other guesses abounded. We were all surprised when the bottle was unveiled as we has all tasted the bottle only a few hours before. It was the 2003 Monprivato!I'll have to follow up... Read More
December 2008
Fratelli Monchiero is a little known producer based in Castiglione Falletto. ... Castiglione and Roero from La Morra separately resulting in tiny quantities of each, about 400 cases of the Roero and just over 200 cases of the Rocche. That makes these wines a challenge to find but a; the wines here are worth a look and can be great values when ... Read More
November 2008
Rocche CostamagnaWines tastedDolcetto dAlba Murrae 2006 86ptsDolcetto dAlba ... Rocche Costamagna. Being in La Morra and having vineyards in the famous La Morra cru of Rocche delannunziata, the Locatelli family wanted to reinforce not only the connection to the history of the old estate but also to the famed land of La Morra.This respect for... Read More
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