Musso, Barbaresco, Rio Sordo

On opening, this had a bit of mustiness that required an hour or so to fully blow off. At that point, the bouquet was quite nice and led to a pleasant and approachable sip with dark cherries, medium acidity, well behaved tannins, and a clean finish with notes of worn leather and Assam tea. A nice value and a solid 10 year old Barbaresco that I’d happily drink again. If I had more, I’d probably open them in the next …

See previous note. Also picked up some ripe black cherries this go round.

Garnet, brick in the glass. Lovely nose filled with crunchy red fruit. Cranberries, currant, mint. Medium +/high acidity. Partially resolved tannins after 2 hours of air. Good quality.

More red berries on the nose. Sour cherry with fine but high acid. Maybe slight hint of blueberry. Silkier than Pora. 93 Plus 1 day. Has flattened a little today, lost a touch of complexity I think. Doesn’t have the same tension as the Pora.

Decanted for 1-2h. Lots of candied fruit on the nose, spice box. The palate is sweet raspberries, oak, spice, faint tannins and an acid finish. This is approachable now, more new world in execution, but the off dry flavor profile is not really attractive to me in a nebbiolo, and I'm not sure this has enough tannins to benefit from 5-10 years of aging. Well made for now, but this is not entirely to my taste, nor would I invest …