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Corino - BaroloWhat strikes you first is the beautiful nose. Even before the first sip, we delve into the wine. Really a fragrance, restrained, round, almost sublime, above all deep and soft. Can this be said of a fragrance? I don't know, it doesn't matter, but the adjectives express roughly what we perceive.

A Barolo that has matured wonderfully. What amazes me most is the fact that the first impression is confirmed in the mouth. This is not always, or even rarely, the case. Nose and palate not infrequently convey different signals. I have reflected on wine before in "Drunk". At the time, I hardly noticed the nose. But now, probably about two years later something escapes the bottle that I would describe quite profanely as great.Piemont Morra

Giuliano and Renato - the two sons of Corino farmers, who had been tenants of a farm in Morro since the 1950s - bottled the first Barolo in the mid-1980s, adopting the philosophy of their friend Elio Altare, namely to achieve better quality and structure in the wines by reducing the harvest. Little by little, the two brothers rose to the top in the Barolo field until they divided the winery in 2005, Giuliano continuing to run eight hectares of the original estate with his wife, and Renato devoting himself above all to the further development of Barolo. However, I don't know how the newer vintages of the two are.

What I do know is that this '96 has the makings of a cult wine. Why didn't I notice this when I first noted the wine, a good two years ago? I don't know. Sometimes a wine develops optimally in decisive phases, sometimes the bottlings are different. But the decisive factor is probably the mood, the expectation and the circumstances in which a wine is drunk. I think that is often the key to wine enjoyment, at least for Mr. and Mrs. Normalverbraucher.

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