October 2018: Nose is excellent, palate still young, wait 5 yrs? Revisited, another bottle opened Oct 14, 2020, Slow ox 1 hour in the bottle. Very mature, off peak, in blind tasting was mistakenly identified as its brother, Case Mate 1998, the former being very mature with nice nose and black fruits - as the Case Mate presumingly should be - while the latter showed up very young and more towards red fruits. Presumably, should have been vice versa. What a turnaround - 2 years between the two bottles opened! Drink Up!
October 2018: Nose is excellent, palate still young, wait 5 yrs? Revisited, another bottle opened Oct 14, 2020, Slow ox 1 hour in the bottle. Very mature, off peak, in blind tasting was mistakenly identified as its brother, Case Mate 1998, the former being very mature with nice nose and black fruits - as the Case Mate presumingly should be - while the latter showed up very young and more towards red fruits. Presumably, should have been vice versa. What a turnaround - 2 years between the two bottles opened! Drink Up!
Sep 25th, 2018
Barolo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
