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2001
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Taster #0619
· Apr 10, 2012
Singing.
2001 vintage
Taster #0619
· Apr 16, 2011
This is in a good place, and I expect it to get better. Pulled the cork at about 5pm, decanted at about 7pm. At that point, it was too intense, but after a couple of hours in the decanter it had opened up nicely. Deep griotte, dark red fruits shading to black, leather and earth, with intense concentration. I'm not sure I like this better than the regular Sassella, but it is a different animal.
2001 vintage
Taster #6270
· Mar 14, 2009
This was an awful bottle of wine. Raisin juice. Plums. More raisin juice. Just awful.
2001 vintage
Taster #2069
· Oct 10, 2008
80/100
WTF...and what a sad disappointment. Decanted this wine for 3 hours and, well...best I can say is, this was like a decent Barbaresco. Little hint of the vaunted complexity and weirdness this wine was supposed to have. Quite a bit of cedar on the nose, and some sour cherry, but strangely thin. For a wine supposedly made in the Amarone style, the intense concentration one would expect from a 15% alcohol wine made with dried grapes was totally absent. The …
2001 vintage