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2008 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbaresco Vigneto Starderi
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2008 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbaresco Vigneto Starderi

Producer: La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Nebbiolo
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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91(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

Good full red.  Plum, menthol and minerals on the nose, complicated by marzipan and a medicinal quality.  Fuller but less expressive than the Gallina, showing less fruit today.  I don't find the same mid-palate energy as in the 2009 version but Rivetti says this wine is actually higher in acidity.  And it has more stuffing to support its serious tannins than the Gallina.  Very imploded today and in need of several years of cellaring.

93+ 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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