Outrageous Barolo
Wade
Our local group (here in Austin) did a Barolo experiment. People were invited to make a Barolo, any type, modify anyway. Then in 14 months we had a sampling. There were 14 Barolos on offer. 2 were commercial (in the under $40 category), the rest were from WE, CC, MM and RJS.
One person made a port out of his. Another divided their kit into 2 batches and treated each differently, and so on. My offerings included a low end WE that I had "pumped up" with zante currents, extra oak and extended aging and some of the MM frozen juice.
I gave a short presentations on the characteristics and pairing guidelines for Barolo and people were encouraged to bring a food to pair with it.
All of the wines were good. Some better as "cocktail" wines and some as "food wines", and of course the opinions varied on each.
However the star of the show was the 18-20 month old MM Mondiale Barolo that George sent. It was an outrageous thing for him to do and it was the most favored wine.
You can't go wrong with these wines, even at $10 a bottle (with corks, bottles, etc.)
kcd