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The Spring 2013 Live Auction
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Lot 42
Estimate: $2,000
The ultimate and purest expression of Barolo can be found in bottles bearing the Giacomo Conterno name. In fact, they represent the ideal of traditional Barolo: rich, powerful, massively structured, and capable of long aging in bottle. These majestic wines descend from a legacy that spans three generations of Conternos: Giacomo, Giovanni, and now Roberto. In each generation, the torch has passed from father to son. Today, Roberto is not only keeping alive the family legacy; many believe that he is making the greatest Barolos ever to appear under the Conterno name. But despite his astonishing gifts as a winemaker, Robert always defers to the beauty of the wines made by his father and grandfather. And so to honor Chris, he has donated a signed magnum of one of the very fi rst Barolo Monfortinos his father made after taking over from grandfather. Now in its 43rd year, the 1970 Monfortino, particularly in magnum from the Conterno family cellar, has decades of life ahead of it. Benefiting The Chris Robles Fund.
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". . . Dark garnet color in addition to earthy, dried fruit, smoke, and tobacco scents. Angular in the mouth, it is big, rich, and well-constituted. "
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Red
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". . . Dark garnet color in addition to earthy, dried fruit, smoke, and tobacco scents. Angular in the mouth, it is big, rich, and well-constituted. "
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