Michael Nielsen > wrote in
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>
> I imagine this tasted more like a barbaresco? Reminds me of a
> discussion I had with a wine merchant. Wther Barolo was a heavy or
> light bodied wine. Particularly grading the "bodiness" versus amarone
> and brunello. I place them heavy to light: amarone, brunello, barolo.
> And that merchant says barolo, amarone, brunello. I told him, well
> maybe I only had lightbodied barolos, so show me one that is as heavy
> as you claim. And I bought 2005 Barolo Massolino and it was light as I
> expected.

I have found several persons supposedly into wine that pay too much attention to tannins
and their perception of tannins contaminates everything in the wine for them. Quite common
for many consumers (and even proffesionals) to mistake tannin for power or body.
>
> there are oaky barberesco's out there? All the ones I've had were very
> light, soda pop-like, acidic, boring.

I like Barbaresco and, while they have not the same structure as Barolo, they are excellent
wines. In Barbaresco you will find modernists (small barrels of new oak) and
traditionalists (large vats of not new slavonian oak) and many degrees in between. Bruno
Rocca is quite modernist to me. As can be the case with Produttori dei Barbaresco.
Fontanafredda Coste Rubin is also quite oaky.

Regards,

s.