got up at 5:00am this morning to open these up,didn’t expect to be this warm around lunch time, end up drinking indoor.
2011 Passopisciaro Etna rosso, my first volcano wine back in the days, very good cork, light creamy sweet red fruit on the nose, Cherry and then the acidity hits me very quick, sour cherries maybe? a little stone/mud flavour in between,I like this Italian Pinot style.
2013 Poderi aldo conterno Bussia, I don’t know anything about this producer before I won this in auction,it was half of what it is selling now right, this is dark and rough at the beginning , very young indeed, we came back to this 4 hours later. aromatic black tea, dried herbs ,something else that smells like rose but lighter ,this is a full bodied barolo, one of the guys said he got dark cherries , yeh , i take his word.
2016 olek starderi, a barbaresco , I had the roncagliette earlier this year, or last year, this is just as good ,light weight red sweet fruits but big tannins , first we thought it was still the poderi aldo but no, this will slowly melts in your mouth, a little spicy ,alcohol also a little high at 14% or is it the new standard now?