Piedmont, Italy. Nebbiolo. 14.5%. Cork. Gift.Tasted after a tart trio of Champagne I found this initially irresistible. The weight, the structure, the depth. . . The scent is deep and enticing, but anything to do with fruit or place is shrouded in a fog of oak; with pen in hand and brain coming into focus I've scribbled non specific and generically modern. Slightly broad and extremely approachable in attack before those wonderful hard tannins. It made the night's next wine, an Australian Shiraz, seem confected and flabby.
Unrelated housekeeping: 2011 consumption - 54% Australian: 23% French: 7% NZ: Italy 5%
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