2000 Barolo

Drinking my way down memory lane in preparation for Piedmont

While getting ready to make my annual pilgrimage to Piedmont, I like to get reacquainted with some of the wines. I already have a tasting of 2008 Barolo, a vintage I have previously praised quite highly on my schedule. But with a tasting of 2009 on my schedule in Italy, I wanted to take a look at a similar vintage, one marked by warm weather and celebrated on release for the power of its fruit. I was never particularly high on the 2000 vintage, though not as down on it as others. It's a solid vintage, a bit simple but with plenty of fruit, and good volume in the mouth. Never destined to make old bones, it is nonetheless Barolo, a wine that can easily age for decades. Now that we're 13 years past the vintage, the wines should tell the story of the vintage quite well. Are they still hold...