Galardi, Terra di Lavoro, IGT

Dinner with EricG (Seattle, WA, USA) : This was a wild ride, as the aromatics just kept changing. A teeny bit oxidized on first open, this exploded with a massive note of eucalyptus and herbal components. That settled down and integrated after time. Gorgeous palate, mineral, focused, pure.

2008 vintage

Day 2: Whatever off putting earthtones and muted flavors were plaguing this on Day 1 certainly resolved themselves after vacuum sealing and returning today. Pleasant aromas and flavors of black plums, red cherries, mixed berries, sweet spice and mulchy earth. Developing balance and complexity. Structure is present but not obtrusive. Medium plus finish. Hopefully the next bottle will present better. Day 1: Decanted for a brief period. Displays a deep ruby core. I can’t say with 100% certainty that this …

2016 vintage

I waited 15 years to open my second bottle of this vintage and it was awesome. I believe it can age further, will wait a few more years for my last bottle!

2005 vintage

I suspected this vine needs another 3-5 years of development in 2012. Forgot it until 2025 and today it is shining. All the elements are still there while differently balanced. Red cherry shines through with underlying notes of ash, ham and lava, some smoke. Delicious, interesting and captivating. Dark transparent red, almost black --- Nose dark, earthiness, fresh mineral breeze, bacon, overall vivid and fresh --- Palate watery, fresh, red and black cherries, nutty notes, some glue and tire, some …

2008 vintage

Strong cork. 3 dimensional wine with layers of fruit. In perfect form now. Flavors penetrate deep into palate with considerable length too. Beauty!

2008 vintage

soft gentle delicious described as blueberries by a knowledgable taster and of course, always the volcano

2008 vintage

Dinner with friends (Seattle, WA, USA) : Wow, such lovely Aglianico. Bright and floral, but chewy and smoky, wonderfully earthy. Rather haunting and deep.

2005 vintage

Double blind tasting Medium/ dark ruby with moderate bricking at rim Medium plus aromas - beautiful and complex - red/black cherry and plum with balsamic/soy sauce and dry earth - mild to moderate new oak notes as well - touch of VA which put this in Italy for me Medium plus bodied with palate of red and black cherry and plum with beautiful oak spices Medium plus well integrated and medium grained tannins with medium plus acidity and medium alcohol …

2016 vintage

Dark ruby with bricking Aromatics medium +. Black fruit, ash, shoe polish and some brief VA Palate has a medium + body. Acid medium +. Tannins medium + and medium grained. Alcohol medium +. Sweet and sour cherry, slightly ripe black plum. Drying finish to tannins Length medium +. Balanced Dry glass notes of leather and cedar Overall, beautiful Aglianico. Nice contrasts between the dark aromatics and the surprising fruit of the palate with nice structure Drink now, but can …

2016 vintage

In 2011 I wrote a note saying don't touch this for a long time, I guess 14 years wasn't long enough. Opened with lasagna bolognese and it was immediately charmless. Hard tannin, broken pumice stone, maybe some potting soil. Shows some ink well and melted crayon with air but still hard to drink a glass of. The next day showed some fruit and sweetness peeking through the blocky structure and you can see there is indeed a wine in here …

2005 vintage

Will keep the score. Have opened up a little compared to the last time. Should have waited a few more years. The oak is getting more integrated and the rustic aglianico natur and minerality is present in the long aftertaste. Must try some more vintages

2016 vintage

Very nice wine and a deviation from the beaten path. Aglianco can age but it remains 2 dimensional at at best...Fully mature and dry without any foreseen hope for development from here....Drink!

2008 vintage

Last bottle. Not bad. Drank over two days. First night I thought this was somewhat faded, everything is there and in good balance but nothing really stands out. Second night surprisingly it held up very well... but still no real delight. I'd guess it would hold for years but won't improve, and is average to boot.

2005 vintage

Quite of brooding and not giving much although you can feel the volcanic influence with some imagination. Underwhelming experience, I guess there are better bottles out there

2008 vintage

Drinking very well just now with a double decant.

2008 vintage

Delicious. At its peak but will go another ten years. Had this with homemade Italian on a Saturday night.

2008 vintage

Fading at this point I think.

2005 vintage

This is now open and singing, at least after a 45 min decant. Still quite a lot of structure and tannins of course but also beautiful dark fruit, nice complexity with some spice and nailpolish. Medium lenght to the slightly smoky finish.

2008 vintage

Will still evolve positive the next few years

2016 vintage

Dark color, dirty aroma, like drinking from an old boot. I've tasted at least ten of these bottles over the years and they've been uniformly disappointing. This was a sip and pour... down the drain. Hope it's my last bottle.

2005 vintage

At Evvia. Very polished silky and rather international tasting. Great depth of fruit but not a lot of secondary notes. Not overtly sweet but comes across jammier than I am used to in Italian reds. There is no denying this is tasty and will appeal to everyone

2008 vintage

My final bottle of this vintage and it was from a magnum. It was opened, but not decanted, for an hour before pouring. I brought this to an Italian restaurant with my wine group. We all loved it, but those of us who have had the Galardi before all felt it tasted much younger than we expected a 2008 to taste like. Maybe it was the magnum effect? Full bodied, with notes of tar (in a good way), dark dark …

2008 vintage

so strong

2016 vintage

**For My Own Tastes** This may have been a bit past prime. Super mellow. But great mustiness, dark fruits, floral...then as the night wore on sort of a baked biscotti thing happening, which I liked a lot. Nice wine. I've had it a few times. However I think for me, get to it before it's 10 years old. Drink this one now, OR find a time machine and go back a few years.

2008 vintage

Soft, musky aromas of black plum, fig, sandalwood and undergrowth lead to dried cherry flavors with a lingering mineral undertow.

2008 vintage

Decanted 2hrs. With Galardi in the past, I have found them either too young and yet full of promise or good to very good, but never quite getting over the hump for greatness. Saturdays bottle was a stand up triple and scored two runs with ease. While you could sense a little gloss of French oak, it really felt integrated and didn’t come at the expense of masking the Aglianicos robust and burly persona. In fact, it really came across …

2008 vintage

Black tar. The volcano is up front. Rose and squid ink linger. Magnificent

2008 vintage

This was dull and funky, with meat and blue cheese notes that I didn’t hate but didn’t love along with pruny, muted fruit. Unfortunately I dropped the bottle trying to refrigerate it for the night so didn’t get to try day 2.

2005 vintage

Deep saturated red-purple in color. Soaring and warm aromas of dark cherries, plums, lifted mentholated notes, smoke and herbs. Super silky and refined palate shows incredible depth and length to the ripe and sweet dark fruits, good acidity, very fine tannins on the long and intensely perfumed finish. The 2016 is a home-run.

2016 vintage

Corked

2008 vintage

Beautiful nose of ripe fruit - cherry, plum, strawberry, fig - pine forest, coal/ash and leather. Lots of other details as well. On the palate starting to soften. Still a backbone of tannin and stone, but not as monolithic as it used to be. A clear step up from previous bottles. Very good.

2008 vintage

Solid.

2016 vintage

My first Lavoro. Lovely wine! However I had it over 3 days and it was like a different bottle each night. The first night was not great - it seemed disjointed. I would decant this in the future. The second night was great, much smoother with integrated tannins and big plum fruit. Third night it had lost some of the fruit but was still bright. Interesting wine and I'm looking forward to tasting more.

2005 vintage

This vintage seems to be more on the lighter side. Still very complex and very good.

2005 vintage

A very balanced and round wine even at this young age. Tasty strawberry flavours and well dosed oak frame the nose. The palate is equally and even more expressive showing polished tannins and lively acidity. A great showing overall with great vfm.

2016 vintage

Deep Ruby Medium (+) Acidity Medium (+) Tannins High Alcohol Medium (+) Bodied Medium (+) Finish Medium (+) Intensity - Black Cherry, Red Cherry, Black Plum, Red Plum, Blueberry, Dried Figs, Vanilla, Violet, Lavender, Dried Herbs Sweet nose, ripe red and black fruits, some floral notes and sweet spice, very fruity, tannins still quite mouth-drying but not harsh, acidity is still there. Overall a very balanced wine with some intensity, but not a good value wine at this price, and …

2008 vintage

Seemed very muted compared to earlier bottles. Fruit just disappeared.

2005 vintage

Loads of dark berries and a Smokey flint under tone - beautiful and much more accessible . So easy to drink and enjoy!

2005 vintage

Great smokey complex strawberry jam

2016 vintage

I’ve had a bunch of these over the years with this being the most aged. Still yourhful color. Rustic nose, hard stone fruits, mineral and black earth, touches of herb. Palate was still firm and rigid. With air a nicely complex structure. More cherry stone fruit, crushed rock and ash. Classic lavoro in my experience I wonder how these would evolve at 30 plus years They are built to last

2005 vintage

Similar to my last note, though perhaps just a touch less complex, with less power this time. My guess is that the 2008s are at or past peak, though they'll be enjoyable for several more years.

2008 vintage

Fresher than the 6/24/20 bottle and a touch richer and more complex.

2005 vintage

Bottle off the list at Enoteca Turi - suggested by the somm. Limited notes so no rating - to some extent driven by focusing on the company but also by not having my attention grabbed by the wine. This was quite rounded with ripe dark plum and some vanilla. Tannins felt resolved and this was easy to drink without really leaving much of an impression...

2008 vintage

Tar, smoke, minerals, toasted oak, dried flowers and black cherries. For this labelm this is a relatively (!) transparent and elegant vintage. I like it!

2005 vintage

Still that. The alcohol isn't crazy, and I love the grapes. But I just don't get this wine. 14%. Poor QPR.

2008 vintage

Inky and deep. Still brooding but no longer a monster. Pleasant almost. Balance is superb.

2008 vintage

Strawberry and raspberry on the nose. On the palate, black cherry, raspberry, and notes of bitter tobacco and earth. This was a good value at a little under $50.

2016 vintage

Great complexity, length and balance. Both PnP and a day after. Dark, black fruit, earth, tobacco, mushrooms and dirt.

2008 vintage

Another beautiful Terra di Lavoro. Fruit, especially black fruit, dominates, but this has all the usual complexity of other vintages. This was PNP’d and was ready to go right out of the gates. (Was poured into water tumblers, so not exactly ideal conditions- I look forward to trying my next bottle with proper glassware).

2008 vintage

This was a bit of an enigma for me, as the wine was very closed down and hard to decipher. Color - very dark, inky, almost black, no signs of age. Nose - Initially very muted, struggled to discern any noteworthy aromas. Immediately moved to decant and only about 3-4 hours in, the wine began to open up and show notes of Cassis, blackberry, vanilla, earth and oak barrel. Mouth - Very tannic at the start. Again, after 4 hours …

2008 vintage

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