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The Winter 2015 Live Auction
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Estimate: $450
2cm.
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96JG
"As good as the 1990 Bartolo is, and it is one of the best 1990 Barolos that I have tasted from this vintage, the 1989 is even a step up and is clearly destined to be one of the greatest wines ever made in Signore Mascarelloās long and illustrious career. The nose is deep and flat out stunning, as it offers up a beautiful mix of red and black cherries, tar, graphite, celery seed, licorice and a pungent topnote of roses. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, bottomless and utterly seamless, with great sappiness in the mid-palate, perfect focus, bright, tangy acids, plenty of ripe tannin, and profound length and grip on the complex and yet, still quite primary finish. This is still very early days for this wine, and it would be borderline criminal to open it any time soon, as there is so much more development to be had as this wine fully emerges from its very refined and powerful adolescence and fully blossoms. It is a great, great young Barolo."
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"As good as the 1990 Bartolo is, and it is one of the best 1990 Barolos that I have tasted from this vintage, the 1989 is even a step up and is clearly destined to be one of the greatest wines ever made in Signore Mascarelloās long and illustrious career. The nose is deep and flat out stunning, as it offers up a beautiful mix of red and black cherries, tar, graphite, celery seed, licorice and a pungent topnote of roses. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, bottomless and utterly seamless, with great sappiness in the mid-palate, perfect focus, bright, tangy acids, plenty of ripe tannin, and profound length and grip on the complex and yet, still quite primary finish. This is still very early days for this wine, and it would be borderline criminal to open it any time soon, as there is so much more development to be had as this wine fully emerges from its very refined and powerful adolescence and fully blossoms. It is a great, great young Barolo."
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Italy grows more indigenous grape varieties than any other country and produces wine in all 20 of its regions. From Piedmont's Nebbiolo to Tuscany's Sangiovese, its finest wines pair structure and bright acidity with a strong sense of place.
In Italy's northwest, Piedmont is home to Nebbiolo, the grape behind the powerful, perfumed and long-lived reds of Barolo and Barbaresco. Fog-shrouded hills and calcareous soils define its greatest wines.
The 'King of Wines,' a powerful, tannic and perfumed Nebbiolo from Piedmont's Langhe hills, celebrated for tar-and-roses aromatics and extraordinary aging potential.