TN: 1974 Filippo Sobrero & Figli Barolo (Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo)

WINE TALK
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A fully tertiary nose with undergrowth, decaying leaves, iron, porcini, medicine cabinet, some soy, dried rose petals, and red fruits. It’s supple and mid weighted on the palate. Savory and umami driven with more porcini, iron, pot pourri, and red nebbiolo fruit. The balsam notes have turned to amaro. This has a lot going on, and there is sense of calm and balance that I love. I’m not sure if it is the power of suggestion knowing the fruit source, but this has textural detail like an older Monprivato. It’s autumnal, and even for my necro leaning palate for nebbiolo, this is starting to fade. That said, this is fading beautifully. Quite long on the back end. Drink up if you’ve got them.

This was pretty terrific with umami driven pork and leek dumplings and Xian Bing meat pies. The umami notes of the wine and the dumplings were really synergistic. (93 pts.)

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Great nite Todd, thanks for posting! Love these old nebs!

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This wine was a bit of a legend among a circle of people I knew. I knew several people who had cellared it. And Manducatti’s, an old-line Italian restaurant in Long Island City, Queens, had many bottles of this, and I’m happy to say I played a role in depleting their cellar over a number of years. Every bottle was excellent, up through the last one circa 2010.

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Nice! One of those great traditional producers who are no more and fading from memory. I had a great bottle of his too, although I feel like it was a 1978.