Damilano Barolo Liste 2015
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Liste is a wine closely linked to the excellent Piedmontese culinary tradition; perfect with white truffle-based dishes and braised meat. Ideal with refined dishes.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This release of 7,400 bottles is held back for an extra year of aging, and surely that time in the cellar has paid its dividends. The Damilano 2015 Barolo Liste is defined by a supple or soft character that is extremely well played in terms of mouthfeel. The wine is slender, but everything is in the right place, and the intensity of the flavors is definitely stronger and deeper in this beautiful vintage. The Liste cru is also located in the comune of Barolo, but the soil breakdown here is as follows: 15% sand, 55% silt and 30% clay. In sum, this 2015 Barolo Liste is a unique edition that has used the added time in bottle to its advantage, developing extra smoothness and integration.
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James Suckling
Rust and dark berries with chocolate, plums, hazelnuts and currants. It’s full-bodied with chewy but polished tannins and a long, long finish. Needs two to three years to come around. Better after 2023.
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Wine Spectator
A broad, savory version, displaying wet hay, cherry, plum and tobacco flavors. A wall of dense tannins provides grip and compacts the finish today. Shows fine balance overall. Best from 2023 through 2040.
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Wine & Spirits
This is floral and red-fruited, with rich flavors of warmed cherries edged in blood orange and licorice. It finishes with a hint of caramel and a bit of heat.
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Iris, violet and woodland berry aromas take center stage. On the tight, austere palate, roasted coffee bean and powdered sage notes accent cranberry, sour cherry and licorice. Assertive, grainy tannins leave a rather lean finish.
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The origins of the Damilano family company dates back to over a century ago, when Guiseppe Borgogno, the great-grandfather of the current owners, started to grow and make wine from his own grapes. This tradition was kept up by Giacomo Damilano, the founder’s son-in-law, together with his children, until it was passed on to his 4 grandchildren, who very attentively manage their forefathers’ land today. The wines produced are renowned for their upright style and the estate is widely appreciated due to the strictness and passion that accompany all of the company's activities.
The vineyards, partly owned and partly leased, are situated in the most famous crus of the Langa region: Cannubi, Liste, Fossati, and Brunate, which are almost entirely cultivated with Nebbiolo da Barolo, and to a lesser extent, with Dolcetto and Barbera varietals.
Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area, as well as in the neighboring Valle d’Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piedmontese villages of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Somm Secret—If you’re new to Nebbiolo, start with a charming, wallet-friendly, early-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba.
The center of the production of the world’s most exclusive and age-worthy red wines made from Nebbiolo, the Barolo wine region includes five core townships: La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Serralunga d’Alba, Castiglione Falletto and the Barolo village itself, as well as a few outlying villages. The landscape of Barolo, characterized by prominent and castle-topped hills, is full of history and romance centered on the Nebbiolo grape. Its wines, with the signature “tar and roses” aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.
There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.
On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.
The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.