2007 Brovia Ca’ Mia. This wine seemed unexpectedly diluted and unripe, had sickly, candied fruit. What the hell went wrong at this house with this wine. ZERO varietal flavors. This was like a Romper Room Bojo Nouveau failed experiment. Or possibly a 1990s Clarendon Grenache diluted with a serious amout of water. Sorry to be so opinionated, but as a lover of Barolo, this is potentially depressing. I’ll leave it to the conspiracy theorists to wonder why this wine was so well reviewed.
***I edited this post this AM to tone down my disappointment after my wife suggested that my palate might have been seriously off given liquid medicine I was taking orally in the late afternoon ( I never even thought about it). I will retaste tonight, and I hope things are different.
You’re funny. A 2007 Piedmont that is diluted and unripe, in one of the ripest years since 2003. Real comedian. Or do you just want to smear a pretty good producer of Barolo? Like Ken suggested, perhaps a bad bottle?
I decanted for only 45 minutes, which is, agreed, not much. By the way, I like Brovia wines very much. I bought this because the '04 Barolos from them were great. One possibility is that I had a really bad acid stomach/reflux yesterday (which is rare for me), and maybe that or all the antacids I swallowed in the afternoon affected my palate. I’m going to call the retailer and ask if I can pop the cork on another one tonight and see if it is better.
FWIW, I had this wine during the summer at Brovia and found it excellent, very far from dilute and very far from unripe. I think that your wife may have it right and that the medicine was messing with your palate. I found it beautifully perfumed and balanced and the Brovia 07s some of my favorites among the wines I tasted.
Tried the next day (sorry only to post now), and it was better. It was still thinnish and monodimensional, but I would say that the medicine/palate thing was definitely a factor. Who knows, it might be closed currently and a profound wine.