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Barolo Ginestra Casa Matè 1990
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Azienda Agricola Elio Grasso
Barolo Ginestra Casa Matè 1990 75cl
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Barolo
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Piemonte
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Italy
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75 cl
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1990
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97 Robert Parker
The 1990 Barolo Ginestra Vigna Casa Mate is an imposing, massive wine endowed with impressive richness. Still rather stern and austere, the wine requires quite a bit of aeration before it reveals an utterly magical array of ripe, exotic fruit. This is a extroverted, opulent wine very much in the style of the vintage, yet it also shows no signs whatsoever of fading and will repay cellaring handsomely. It is another magical Barolo from Elio Grasso. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2030. By the time I arrived at Elio Grasso's beautiful winery in November 2009 I had tasted nearly all of Piedmont's benchmark 1989 and 1990 Barolos. Still, nothing could have prepared me for the wines I would encounter. Grasso's 1989 and 1990 Barolos are monumental, epic wines of the very highest level that easily stand side by side with the finest wines produced in both vintages. Massively concentrated and dense, the wines will easily last for another 20 years and quite likely longer. Elio Grasso came to making wine somewhat accidentally after the passing of his father. In fact, he didn't drink wine until his mid-30s! The family originally sold wine in bulk, but when that became too demanding, the estate turned to selling the fruit itself. Elio Grasso's first official vintage was 1979 although he also made a small amount wine in 1978 from fruit he was unable to sell. Curiously, Grasso describes himself as a poor taster of wines, and during this time he was assisted by Pietro Ballario, who had worked at Marchesi di Gresy in Barbaresco. It is quite evident Grasso is much more passionate about working in the vineyards than in the cellar. One of the things that is most remarkable about these wines is that they were made with no modern-day technology whatsoever. There was little or no green harvesting done in the vineyards. The wines were fermented in cement, with no temperature control and skin contact that lasted several months. The malolactic fermentations occurred naturally and the wines were aged in large oak barrels. According to Grasso, his 1989s and 1990s turned out well because the vineyards were old at the time (ranging from 50-70 years of age) and because his vineyard workers were very seasoned (as is the case with agriculture in the US, today most of the work in Piedmont's vineyards is done by migrant workers). When the comprehensive history of Piedmont is finally written, a very special place will need to be reserved for Elio Grasso.
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Azienda Agricola Elio Grasso
Elio Grasso had a choice. He could make powerful, unyielding wines from his beautiful estate in the hills behind Monforte, or he could emphasize balance and harmony. He chose the latter, and he meets these aims through rigid attention to the vineyards. Grasso and his family offer three single-vineyard Barolos, purer and more complex today than ever. The Vigna Chiniera and the Case Maté are made in a more traditional style, while the powerful Runcot is aged for 30 months in all new barriques. Also look for their Nebbiolo from the Langhe and the Dolcetto d'Alba.
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