2004 Marcarini Barolo Brunate 14.0%
Reports of an upcoming bloodbath in Barolo/Barbaresco prices reminded me that I had picked up a half bottle of this at a NY liquidator. Blackberry and tar with a touch of sweat. No rose petals or violets (but yesterday was not a flower day). In the mouth it sits upon the tongue like a firm stool. Not as in the English term for merde, but as in a seating appartus firmly established upon the triple pillars of ample fruit, balancing acidity and satisfying body. Washboard tannins afford pleasant tactility. Generous weight bears high alcohol like gossamer mantle. A fine effort and attractive QPR in the mid $20s but, at this premature point, does not seem to promise idiosyncratic pleasures that would make me want to stash a case and wait a decade for the appropriate payoff.
