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2006 Vietti Barolo Castiglione
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2006 Vietti Barolo Castiglione

Producer: Vietti
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Nebbiolo
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

Good full red. Reticent, pure nose offers menthol, licorice and brown spices. Suave and silky but at the same time juicy, delineated and deep, with lovely lift to the flavors of red fruits, spices and menthol. A round and complex wine finishing with broad, building tannins that coat the teeth. An impressive showing for this bottling.

92 Points | Wine Spectator
92+ Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo based wines made outside the Langhe hills are often lost in the commotion over Barolo and Barbaresco. The provinces of Vercelli and Novarra in the northern reaches of the Piedmont area are home to wines like Carema, Ghemme, and Gattinara. The latter two wines are mostly Nebbiolo, which as traditionally been blended with...
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