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Barolo wine vintages: 1990 - 2000

August 26, 2011

1990 (majestic) Extraordinary vintage. Exciting and complex wine, with a good structure, balance and consistency, elegant scent;rich and wide, with a generous taste, harmonic and fine tannin level and persistent structure; remarkably long-lived.

1991 (balanced) Good vintage. Harmonic and elegant wine with a pleasantly balanced structure. Pleasant and delicate scent, on average persistent and dense, and a fresh and convincing taste.

1992 (balanced) Normal vintage. Vino Harmonic, elegant wine, of a good and pleasant stuff.Pleasant scent, con discretly e delicately persistent, and a sincere and tempting taste. Modest production.

1993 (elegant) Excellent vintage. Complete wine, with complex and intense scent, persistent and tempting. Generous structure, pleasant taste, balanced tannin level, remarkably persistent, long-lived.

1994 (balanced) Normal vintage. On average strong wine, pleasantly balanced and harmonic. Delicate and tempting scent; with pleasant structure and discretly persistent, fine tannin level. On average long-lived.

1995 (elegant) Excellent vintage. Balanced and strong structure. Wide, delicate, pleasant and intense scent; pleasantly high tannin level, harmonic, temptingly delicate, on average long-lived.

1996 (majestic) Very good vintage. Strong and complete, pleasant structure. Intensely and widely scented. Pleasant stuff; suitable for a long life.

1997 (majestic) Extraordinary vintage. Splendid wine, complex, with elegant structure, harmonic. Generous and complete taste, with an elegant tannin level, very harmonic and long-lived.

1998 (elegant) Very good vintage. Well balanced wine with a pleasant structure, of good stuff. Elegant scent, generous taste, with balanced tannin level and long-lived.

1999 (majestic) Extraordinary vintage. Complex and rich wine, with a good structure. Intensely and widely scented. Elegant, generous and complete taste, with harmonic tannin level; remarkably long-lived.

2000 (majestic) Very good vintage. Wine exceptionally elegant, with strong character and complex. Intense and suasive scent. Generous and pleasant taste, with a strong character, right tannin level, suitable for a long life.

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Massimo Martinelli

I was born near a river, the biggest Italian river, the Po, in a zone where it is already majestic ald solemn. Rivers have been signs and nests for civilisation. To me this is a great cultural honor because the ancient cultures were linked to the rivers, and events in history have often happened on water. Rivers have been ways for transports and commerce, and ideas also; from them I learned that things go, but they don't come back. So I have a "liquid" sensibility, and I strongly prefer wine to water. I intensely study it. Either as a producer, in the Renato Ratti firm in Annunziata di La Morra, in the core of the land of Barolo, or in writing and talking (courses of wine-testing, of cooking); the titles of my books are well-known (perhaps because they are difficult to find): Wine-testing (Quaderni del Museo Ratti dei Vini di Alba 1975), Langhe cooking wine (edizioni Antoroto-Mondovì 1977). I also gather wine labels; my collection is very interesting. It is composed by around fifty thousand labels. In the Langhe, in the land of Barolo I have found a very peaceful life. Massimo Martinelli ------------------------- Sono nato in riva ad un fiume, il più grande fiume d'Italia, il Po, in un punto in cui è già maestoso ed imponente. I fiumi sono stati i segni e le culle della civiltà. Per me ciò costituisce un grande privilegio culturale essendo le antiche civiltà collegate ai fiumi, come le vicende dell'umanità che si sono svolte lungo i corsi d'acqua! I fiumi inoltre hanno permesso rapidità di scambi commerciali e di idee, per questo so che le cose vanno e non ritornano. Ho quindi il senso "liquido" e preferisco decisamente il vino all'acqua. Ad esso infatti mi dedico con accanimento. Sia come produzione, nelle Cantine Renato Ratti all'Annunziata di La Morra, nel cuore del Barolo, sia con scritti o interventi divulgativi (corsi di degustazione, di conoscenza, di cucina), con titoli ormai prestigiosi (anche perché introvabili), quali La degustazione (Quaderni del Museo Ratti dei Vini di Alba 1975), Langhe cucina vino (edizioni Antoroto-Mondovì 1977). Ed ancora raccogliendo le etichette dei vini, oggetto di collezione che può essere considerata fra le più interessanti, con circa 50 mila esemplari. Nelle Langhe, nelle terre del Barolo ho trovato una grande oasi di pace. Massimo Martinelli

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