Inadvertent $35 Nebbiolo tasting

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Thanks for the Porro notes. Lynch has been raving about him for a while...
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Well he has been selling the wines for a while.

I'm no nebbiolo expert but when I lived in Berkeley I enjoyed the Porro wines for their great value. They seem to have less broad distribution than some of Kermit's other wines.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
vajra's bricco viole is meant for the long, long haul. comparing a way too young bricco viole to vajra normale is apples to oranges.
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An ageworthy wine needn't necessarily be chunky or extracted. In a lineup of slightly higher level Nebbiolo a year or two back, the 05 Bricco Viole scored well with everyone for aromatics but lacked palate refinement compared to Capellano, F Rinaldi, G Mascarello, Cavallotto and G Rinaldi, none of which are going to get marked down for being short term drinkers. It was not a bad wine at all but we all thought it was a little extracted and coarse. I'm sure in time it will resolve and get to a better place tannin wise. However, coarser tannin is not USUALLY found in a producer's better wine, thus the surprise.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
I was similarly perplexed when I was looking for a nice link for you.

Anyway, the Baudana "Baudana" isn't inexpensive, but the 2006 is really a tour de force, in my opinion.
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I appreciate the links above as well, but there are references to too much wood with Baudana that I've seen before and see again, so I've remained on the sidelines. Curious to hear your take on that subject...
 
i wasn't being vintage specific. just stating generally that young bricco viole is pretty hard to assess when it is in its infancy. for me anyway.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
i wasn't being vintage specific. just stating generally that young bricco viole is pretty hard to assess when it is in its infancy. for me anyway.
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I think that Josh was referencing Baudana about the wood topic.
 
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