2019 Cordero di Montezemolo Barolo Monfalleto
Adventures Of A Black Belt Sommelier
A fabulous, moderately priced cru Barolo!
<i>Welcome back to Adventures of a Black Belt, Somalia.</i> <i>Boy, Barolo is a really beautiful place, isn't it?</i> <i>Last night, I attended a tasting of Italian wines with an importer here.</i> <i>You may have seen my previous episode about the cousin of ordinary Brunello.</i> <i>That they also poured some lads from Biedmont.</i> <i>What?</i> <i>One of which was the 2019 <i>it's an extraordinary wine.</i> <i>It's very concentrated, very powerful, with a lot of like dried, cherry, blackberry, mulberries, spices, leather, saddle leather, shoe leather.</i> <i>It's really kind of full-bodied and concentrated for Barolo.</i> <i>Barolo is like Navielos, like the Dryas grape in the world.</i> <i>But it doesn't generally produce extremely full-bodied, concentrated wines.</i> <i>Well, this is for Barolo, very full-bodied and concentrated and intense, powerful expression of the Navielo grape from all from one vineyard, the Mofoletto vineyard in La Mora.</i> <i>All the grapes from this come from vineyard that surrounds the family home.</i> <i>Well, it's just really, really excellent, kind of not necessarily typical Barolo.</i> <i>I asked the guy presenting the wines if they considered their wines more of traditional style or more of Barolo boys type modern style Barolo.</i> <i>He said that they consider themselves part of the Barolo boys movement or process.</i> <i>Not sure, well, they know better than I do, but I think there's some traditional character to the swine too.</i> <i>It is very, very tannic and very dry.</i> <i>But it's young, it's only five years old, I think, and well, somebody asked him how long he thought he would age.</i> <i>He said 30 years in a cool wine cellar, I think that's kind of conservative, it might go longer than that.</i> <i>He suggested that it would be really good with white troubles.</i> <i>That's obviously the automatic answer to what kind of food you serve Barolo with.</i> <i>I think it would be great with any kind of pasta with, you know, Melanese or any kind of red meat.</i> <i>Well, I would be great with a leg of roast leg of wild boar.</i> <i>It would be incredible with just leg of wild boar roasted on a hearth with just the pan juices.</i> <i>Not sure how many people watching this have the ability to roast a leg of wild boar on a hearth and serve it with the pan juices in this wine.</i> <i>But it might be worth going out and getting yourself a hearth in a rotisserie in a leg of wild boar.</i> <i>That and this wine would be really, really amazing combination, food wine combination.</i> <i>The wine's excellent now, you could drink it tonight.</i> <i>But it's just, you know, as always saying wine, the only justification for wine being expensive is that it improves with time and bottle.</i> <i>And this wine will improve dramatically with time and bottle.</i> <i>If you drink it tonight, you're short-chaining yourself because you're not going to experience what this wine is capable of becoming with time in the bottle.</i> <i>Here's the amazing thing, it is this quality Barolo.</i> <i>By the way, the wine I get agrees with me, they get great at 95 points.</i> <i>I think that's pretty spot on, I think it's 95 point wine.</i> <i>It's a 95 point crude Barolo for $50. It is all over wine searcher at about $48 to $50 bottle.</i> <i>That is train robbery.</i> <i>That is just hard to imagine.</i> <i>Honestly, it's hard to imagine being able to buy a Barolo of this quality for $50, but you can.</i> <i>Actually, the store I work at, we have it on sale as part of the thing last night is for $55 bottle.</i> <i>But you can find it for $50 on wine searcher.com.</i> <i>Thanks for tuning in.</i> <i>Honestly, this is an extraordinary wine for $50 price there.</i> <i>It's worth searching for and should be able to find it, they made $54,000.</i> <i>Thanks for tuning in to Adventures of the Blackrails Only.</i> [BLANK_AUDIO]