2001 Barolo Ginestra Vigna Sorì Ginestra

Wine Details
Place of Origin

Italy

Monforte D'alba

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Nebbiolo

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2013 - 2016

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Claudio Conterno and Guido Fantino did a fabulous job with their 2001 Baroli, two wines that have held up quite nicely. The 2001s were aged in 100% new French oak barrels.

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2013 - 2021

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When I lived in Italy I made frequent visits to this estate to stock my home cellar. There are very few wineries in the region that achieve such a high level of quality across the entire production of wines. In my blind tastings of 2001 Barolos the Conterno-Fantino wines consistently performed brilliantly. The estate employs rotary fermenters, and fermentations last around a week for the Barolos, which are then aged in 100% new barriques.

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Guido Fantino's deeply colored, glossy, modern-style wines rarely disappoint, and he has made another set of explosive red wines in vintage 2001. Says Fantino: "The 1999s have great charisma, and are very typical of our zone. But the 2001s are even better. They have more character, more flesh; they're more complete, with more tannins but riper and sweeter tannins. "