Conterno Fantino, Barolo, Sori Ginestra 1999
Description
93 Points CellarTracker Member
Beautifully aged, gracious, harmonious and silky. Still has some fruit left. THis has always been, and still is, a very trustworthy, true-to-type and affordable example of Barolo. 3/30/2022
94 Points Int'l Wine Cellar
Deep red. Pungently spicy aromas of red fruits and minerals. Sweet, lush, deep and harmonious; already revealing compelling inner-mouth perfume. Very sweet and very long, with a palate-cleansing, sappy aftertaste. Tannins are thoroughly buffered by fruit. A great showing. Based on the 1996 through 2000 vintages, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Guido Fantino's Barolo Sori Ginestra is one of the Piedmont's great wines, with its exhilarating combination of power and perfume. Fantino has added a new Barolo to his portfolio, from leased 40-year-old vines in Parussi, in Castiglione Falletto (his first vintage was 1997). The improvement in this cuvee between '97 and '99 was striking, and Fantino admitted that it took until 1999 "to get the vineyard right." I ventured the opinion that this wine may soon surpass Fantino's Vigna del Gris, which also comes from the Ginestra vineyard; Fantino reminded me that this latter 45-year-old parcel is in the process of being replanted (in 2000, he had just 30% of a normal crop here due to the replanting program). (ST) 94+ 11/2002
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