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Luigi Pira Langhe Nebbiolo le Ombre 2004

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Luigi Pira Langhe Nebbiolo le Ombre (2004)

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Winery:
Luigi Pira
Varietal:
Nebbiolo
Region:
Italy > Piemonte > Langhe
Type:
Red Wine
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User Tags:  wood, sweetness, medicine, licorice, spicy, nose, tannins, style, fruits, integrated 


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Nebbiolo is a fickle grape famed as much for its pale appearance as for its tannic character and produces some of the most perfumed and richly flavored wines. Though generally only medium-bodied, the wines possess rose and anise scented aromatics and deep flavors of cherry, orange peel and subtle green herb tones.

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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Tarry and smoky nose with a touch of fruitcake sweetness and minor note of fairly raw wood. Licorice and deep roses emerge though the nose remains a bit tight with background tones of fur and stone. Sweet fruit up front, precise, crisp tannins followed by a lovely flush of red fruit with a bit of integrated yet noticeably cedary wood. Apple-y fruit and wild red berries turn darker in the mouth with a minor medicinal note on the mid-palate. More medicinal and menthol on the finish with a touch of tobacco and bitter licorice as well as lingering oak spice and subtle wood tannins. A blocky, rich, slightly read more...


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Snooth User: Philip
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Acrid tar on the nose, but it moves quickly past that into quite a classic barolo taste. I'm not the hugest Barolo fan, but despite the style found this quite approachable. Strong tannins, even still. Long finish on the dry tannins.


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