More Barolo 2004s
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Much excitement has surrounded the 2004 Barolos, which is why we have seized all opportunities to taste them. You can see our initial set of tasting notes here but since then we have managed to assemble the following set of further tasting notes.
The majority of these wines were tasted by Julia as part of a recent Decanter tasting panel, which will be presented in their May 2009 issue. She reports, 'The number of wines sent in was so high (over 200) that each person tasted only half of the wines submitted. All the tasters agreed that this was...
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