2011 San Fereolo Langhe Barbera Austri

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 90.0 points

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  4/13/2024 - Kork-Dork wrote: flawed

  Unfortunately TCA damaged (corked) with the tell-tale intense notes of damp basement and wet newspaper

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  1/20/2024 - Kork-Dork Likes this wine: 90 Points

  👃 Dried cherry, Seville orange, mushrooms, tobacco, dark chocolate and smoky cedar. There’s a hint of volatile acidity, but it blows off quickly.
  
  👅 Full-bodied (ABV 14.5%), lively acidity (m+), smooth tannins, “black orange” on the palate and a long finish of chocolate with candied orange.
  
  👀 Deep purple
  
  📝 Very intense on nose and palate. There’s certainly a dollop of brett, but just the right amount to add complexity and depth without veering into the domain of barnyard. Fascinating with the wine’s “black orange” palate. Do you guys remember Black Orange, i.e. Coke mixed with Fanta from the 90s?
  
  Paired with homemade sour dough pizza.

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  10/24/2021 - matage wrote: 90 Points

  Funkt with lovely brett straight out of the bottle with quite some underlying power.
  Much prefer the primary "dirty complexity" day one compared to the more polished and smooth wine that emerged day 2.
  Glass: Gabriel Gold

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  2/10/2021 - afields wrote:

  Intensely aromatic and spicy nose: cedar chips, high toned red and blue and black fruit and tomato, metallic/olive notes from brett. The plate follows but it’s a little softer in the mouth in a textural sense, and floral. Fine tannins, bright (M+) acid, lean body, and perfumey character with a long finish come together to make a very pretty wine with strong personality.
  
  This is quality Barbera (actually a blend with some Nebbiolo and the latter shows), with maybe a little too much woody character. Drinking well but if anything I’d give it a few more years and see if that woody spice integrates more because it’s a little intense and, along with some alcohol, keeps drinkability at the sipping and slow appreciation level—fine but maybe not what I want from Barbera which is such a great food wine. Good anyway with Pastitsio. 6.5+/10

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  1/24/2021 - Ulveström Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I like this wine, nebbiolo perfumes is in the background. Allthogh a bitterness is maybe a little strong that can bother some people.

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