I’m finding myself more and more intrigued by Barolo and Barbaresco, and I’m looking for a sound example of something with age from a good vintage to further my education. Also, '78 is my birth year and my b-day isn’t too far away, hence my interest in the particular bottle.
Who’s had this wine, and is it worth the tariff around $200? At this price point, I’m defiantly looking for something special.
If not this, I’ll entertain other aged Barolo or Barbaresco ideas that are drinking great at the moment from other vintages.
I am not a big fan of this winery, but others are. The first thing you would need to find out about the bottle you are interested in is whether it is an original release (i.e. released to the market in the early 1980s) and in this case, how has it been stored. The alternative is that it is a library release, released fairly recently into the market after being decanted, topped off, and recorked.
In my experience, the original release wines are old and tired, while the library release wines are freakishly young.