Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

Medium Ruby color with aromas of berry fruits and spicy floral notes. On the palate flavors of cherry, blueberry and raspberry with pepper spice, cedar and herbs. Fine dusty tannins, medium+ finish ending with fruit, spice, cedar and slight earthy character. Nice now! — 2 months ago

Dave

9.2

Tame is the right word. This Barolo is moving out of its wild youth, but can still age some. Soft fruit and new leather, a little sage. Tannins are mellow, decanted for 2 hours. Paired with pork medallions in a basil cream sauce. Good pairing.
Listening to Willie Nelson — 6 months ago

steven burlingham

9.4

Light bright cherry, figgy on back end 2018 — 2 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.1

Decent barolo from a tough vintage. — 4 years ago

Carlo Maria Rossotto

9.1

Exceptional Alta Langa. I had it with Paola and Flavio at 100Vini in Alba. Nice memories. — 4 years ago

Trixie

9.0

Had to give it a 90 as we married 30 years ago today! 💕

Sweet and elegant. Almost a flavour of pear.

Looks pretty in a glass as its effervescent. 🥂

•7% ABV• April 28, 2020💐 — 6 years ago

Paul St Clair

8.9

Very complex wine. Powerful flavor burst of lemon and lime with a touch of white pepper. Undercurrents of honeydew and tart peach with a hint of pineapple. Tart finish that plays with that teases the fruits. — 3 months ago

Pooneet K

9.0

Down the middle gavi. If you like most gavis for their crisp expression as we do this will not disappoint. Certainly not bad for the price. — 6 months ago

Daniel M

9.0

No real notes, evening pour with our guest from france who is staying for while here in Poland. Great stuff. The fruit and soft edges of a good langhe nebbiolo, but the good tannins and structure of the grape. That's very enjoyable. — a year ago

Merrilee Schofield

9.5

Absolutely delicious. A little bit of everything. I would hoard this wine if I could. — 3 years ago

Jay Kline

9.2

Brought to Tasting Group from my cellar and presented double-blind. In the glass the the wine is a turbid garnet with and orange rim. Some signs of sediment. On the nose, powerful, developed(ing), bruised fruit, red apple, leather, decaying red flowers, forest floor, gym socks, balsamic, and sort of herbaceous too. On the palate, Montmorency cherries, stewed fruits, and desiccated red apples. Grippy! Dry with medium+ acid, medium+ tannin. The finish is long and savory finish. Everyone was in Italy, mostly Piemonte with a couple of Barolo calls and vintages ranging from the late 90’s to the mid-2000’s. This bottle was in a really great place. “Vigna Gattinera” (not to be confused with the Gattinara DOCG) is a vineyard that was planted to Nebbiolo up until the early 90’s when the vines were torn out and it was replanted to Pinot Nero. Today, the grapes for this vineyard now produce Fontanafredda’s Alta Langa. — 4 years ago

Doctor Alex

9.7

Feast of taste and strength. Magnificent! — 6 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.0

Tangy fruity full and fun. But strong. Earthy, like this wine was friends with a vegetable once. The body is somewhat unctuous in a pleasant way. It’s voluptuous but then you squeeze it and there’s a lot of muscle in there too. — 7 years ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of an hour. The 2004 Lazzarito “Vigna La Delizia” pours a deep garnet color with a transparent core; medium+ viscosity with no staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is vinous with notes of ripe and slightly stewed Morello cherry, tar, truffle, dried roses, anise, dried orange peel, talcum powder, old wood and cool spices. On the palate, the wine is bone dry with high tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long. Honestly, one of the more impressive Barolos from Fontanafredda that I’ve had in a while. Drink now through 2044. — 5 months ago

Matt Waring

9.0

Approachable after 1 hr decant. Cherry-cranberry fruit, hints of black, leathery palate. A little short and it’s not the most complex. But very good now, and for a Barolo you can buy at Costco and open that night, it’s terrific — 7 months ago

Berry Marinussen

9.1

Still young and fresh! — 2 years ago

Adam Baker

9.8

Surprise drop in and drank this with Chris’ left over KC strip. Wonderful. Perfectly aged. — 4 years ago

with Brud and Chris

Nicole Schleif

9.2

Piedmont. Ingersoll wines — 6 years ago

Peter Nelson

9.5

Showing amazingly, small red berries, dusty earth, light mulberry, slight sweet impressions, silky with fine powdery tannins almost completely resolved; drinking like a well aged Burgundy. Fantastic with mushroom risotto at Celestino — 7 years ago

Harri Neiman

9.2

Can't go wrong with Fontanafredda - straightforward, smooth, easy drinking — 7 years ago