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The May 2023 Auction: Part 4
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Estimate: $800
2cm, torn label, lightly bin stained label.
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94JG
"It had been several years since I last opened a bottle of the 1990 Bartolo out of my cellar, and as several of the 1990s I have tasted in recent times were really starting to drink very well, I thought the same might be true for this wine. Wrong! This is still a fairly young bottle of old school Barolo that has not yet started to blossom and remains at least five years away from beginning to drink with some of the generosity of maturity, but it is also one of the purest and most precise wines that one is likely to find from this fairly roasted vintage. The bouquet on the â90 Bartolo is excellent, offering up a youthful blend of black cherries, cassis, oregano, road tar, roasted game and bonfires. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very, very precise for a 1990, with a rock solid core, nascent complexity, tangy acids and still a fair bit of firm tannin perking up the very long, perfectly balanced finish. This has to be one of the wines of the vintage in 1990!"
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"It had been several years since I last opened a bottle of the 1990 Bartolo out of my cellar, and as several of the 1990s I have tasted in recent times were really starting to drink very well, I thought the same might be true for this wine. Wrong! This is still a fairly young bottle of old school Barolo that has not yet started to blossom and remains at least five years away from beginning to drink with some of the generosity of maturity, but it is also one of the purest and most precise wines that one is likely to find from this fairly roasted vintage. The bouquet on the â90 Bartolo is excellent, offering up a youthful blend of black cherries, cassis, oregano, road tar, roasted game and bonfires. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very, very precise for a 1990, with a rock solid core, nascent complexity, tangy acids and still a fair bit of firm tannin perking up the very long, perfectly balanced finish. This has to be one of the wines of the vintage in 1990!"
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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.
Produces pale but powerfully tannic and perfumed reds with tar, rose and cherry notes. The grape behind Barolo and Barbaresco, it is among the most age-worthy in the world.