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2007 Aldo Conterno Barolo Bussia Cicala
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2007 Aldo Conterno Barolo Bussia Cicala

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

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94 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

Saturated red-ruby color.  Deeper, warmer aromas than the Colonnello, showing strong minerality but a bit lower-toned nonetheless.  Very rich and large-scaled wine with extravagant sweetness to its very ripe flavors of dark berries, bitter chocolate, leather and smoke.  This doesn't have the acidity of the 2008 Cicala but the tannins are more harmonious today.  Finishes very rich and very long, with big but nicely buffered tannins.

95 Points | Wine Spectator

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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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