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1997 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino Riserva
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1997 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino Riserva

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

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92(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2004

($275) Good medium red. Very ripe, ineffable nose combines raspberry, licorice, dried herbs and minerals, with a hint of reduction. Sweet, sappy and aromatic in the mouth, with flavors of candied raspberry, musky strawberry, licorice and rose petal. Shows a more roasted quality than vintages like 1999 and 2001, but this has lovely fruit, superb richness and unusual early appeal.

95 Points | Wine Spectator
98 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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About Italy

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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