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1996 Parusso Barolo Bussia Vigna Rocche - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo (4/7/2012)

I've been looking to sell off my modernist Barolo from 1996. I spent a week there tasting them out of barrel and was blown away. I bought a bunch, and then didn't like where they were going in comparison to my more "traditional" producers. Well, this bottle was a revelation and another reason to always keep an open mind with respect to wine. The wine had a beautiful garnet robe and a very pure nose of cherries with hints of root spices, herbs, and flowers. Tangy acidity on the palate gave the wine a very refreshing quality. The tannin were well mannered and effective in giving shape, but without any harshness or intrusion. I was really, really pleasantly surprised by this and will check out some other of these 1996s before I sell them off willy-nilly. (92 points)*

This was certainly a very pleasant surprise. I may still end up selling a good number of modernist 1996s just because I bought too much, but I'll definitely be holding on to some. It's nice to see that, at least in this case, my hopes for a wine in barrel have actually turned out despite what the interim showed.

That's right motherfuckers. Points!
 
we have fatboy, vlm, and Chris, all posting.

Hot dog.

vlm, your points are silly. And you're probably wrong about the wine too.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
My glass runneth overwe have fatboy, vlm, and Chris, all posting.

Hot dog.

vlm, your points are silly. And you're probably wrong about the wine too.
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My points are truth.

I was seemingly wrong about the wine. I can't emphasize enough how shocked I was. Luckily, I drank the bottle over dinner with a friend who was as blown away as I was and can verify that it actually happened.

And I post regularly on the Jeebus board.
 
originally posted by VLM:

And I post regularly on the Jeebus board.
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They kick the ball up the field, they kick the ball down the field.

The players get new contracts.

zzzzzz.
 
See, and I was getting the treatment on Therapy for liking 88 Prapo Ceretto at a similar age.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
My glass runneth overwe have fatboy, vlm, and Chris, all posting.

Hot dog.

vlm, your points are silly. And you're probably wrong about the wine too.
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My points are truth.

I was seemingly wrong about the wine. I can't emphasize enough how shocked I was. Luckily, I drank the bottle over dinner with a friend who was as blown away as I was and can verify that it actually happened.

And I post regularly on the Jeebus board.
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One would think that having discovered oneself to have been in error would produce positions held with more modesty in the future. Alas, the history of converts becoming the most enthusiastic persecutors does not bear this logic out. But surely winos might be different.
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by .sasha:
See, and I was getting the treatment on Therapy for liking 88 Prapo Ceretto at a similar age.
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Not from me. I liked it too. 95 not so much.
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I was recently told that 88 nebbiolo is crashing and burning, and that I need to be drinking mine up. Filthy rumors or valuable insider information?
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by .sasha:
See, and I was getting the treatment on Therapy for liking 88 Prapo Ceretto at a similar age.
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Not from me. I liked it too. 95 not so much.
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I had a notion they'd jumped the shark in '90.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
I was recently told that 88 nebbiolo is crashing and burning, and that I need to be drinking mine up. Filthy rumors or valuable insider information?
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Depends who said it. (Offhand, I can't think of any reason why this should be true, but it still may be.)
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by VLM:

And I post regularly on the Jeebus board.
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They kick the ball up the field, they kick the ball down the field.

The players get new contracts.

zzzzzz.
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It's an honor that you visit us over there, if only as a lurker. I feel like a violist whose house has been visited by the conductor.
 
So, there's actually a Wiki-age on this expression. As my son would say, that's just weird.

I've been anti-tv for a long time, but now, after recently re-watching series 4 and 5 of The Wire, wonder if the mini-series is not the optimal format for moving-picture narrative art. Cramming everything into the standard 90-minute movie format is like writing poetry exclusively in sonnet form.

The fly in the mini-series ointment, though, is that commercial considerations predispose producers to persist beyond the point where a given series eventually jumps the shark.
 
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