From a 375. Rose petals, leather, cinammon and spruce on the nose. The tannins have started to subside somewhat, but it is still quite tart and young. Nice purity of fruit and texture suggest this will improve even more with some more bottle time. Went extremely well with left over spicy Hoppin’ John from New Year’s Day. Perfect for a cold snowy night.
Thanks Jud. I loved this wine when it was released but somehow ended up never buying any, despite its very reasonable price at the time.
Nice descriptive, Jud. I appreciate the earthiness of the Pio Cesare Barolos - rustic when compared to many out there, yet still capturing the florals that make Nebbiolo what it is.
opened a 2001 Pio Cesare Barbaresco from Magnum at lunch today - didn’t take formal notes, so I didn’t feel it was worth it’s own thread, but man is that wine drinking great right now. Light bricking, bright acidity, balanced, with roses, cinnamon, cherry. Just really wonderful.
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Glad these turned out well.
In the past, the regular bottlings are aged 30% in barriques, and the single-vineyards saw 70-80% barriques, according to Kerin O’Keefe’s book (2014). But in a 2021 blog post, Jamie Goode says the portion going to barriques (one-third new) is now small.