Had a Italian week by myself at home since last Sunday,why? 2 of the bottles (benevelli and Cappellano barolo) had some bad reviews online,flawed. So I decided to open some early to test my luck. All these wine is from auction and sent to me at the same time.
Cappellano , most flawed comments out of all, the cork looks very good, I slow ox this for 4 hours ,light red colour, great nose on the glass,A bit rough to drink at first ,red sweet fruits and a bit of wood, Creamy cherry And earthy on this medium bodied wine,I’m not sure if this has gone to secondary yet ,a long finish .this wine lasted 4 days with air vacuum pump.
Benevelli , 4hr slow is,Good cork,this is ready to drink , not As rough as the previous barolo, a little darker on the colour, sweet dry fruit sort of flavour ,I like this more for now than the Cappellano,a good finish. This wine also lasted 4 days .
now that I’m not worried as much, I decided to open a few more bottles.
Roberto voerzio, cork looks brand new ,a Nebbiolo that I thought I could drink it young, nope,First glass wasn’t pretty, rough, big tannins , I can’t get any nose out of it, when it comes to wine like this , I stopped and move on to the next wine . second night matters most , lovely dark fruit and a little bitterness of dark chocolate, it’s more smooth on day 3 and there’s nothing left for day 4.
Olek vino Rosso, a new wine that I’m looking forward to try, but when I pull out the cork, something is not right , wine marks across half way of the cork.
I didn’t get much fruit on the nose, it was sour and weird ,I can only guess this is heat damaged, not drinkable at all. Very Disappointed. Well I rather have this corked than the other 2 barolo.
to make it up I opened another bottle, Mayer Pinot 06, ran out of Italian wine.
Oh this is awesome , almost doesn’t look like aged , creamy woody on the nose, that earthy red fruit goodness almost like a extract that explodes in your mouth. Yummmy.