K L

9.1

Solid Italian option and Kurt rec. would try again. Light and acidic but not too much. Grassier than citrus. — 17 days ago

with Matt

Cathy Levy

9.3

Lovely Barbaresco from the Piedmonte region. — a month ago

Mike Lev

9.0

Fruit forward, round. Med+!body. Matches with grilled pork tenderloin, creamy onion and date sauce. — 2 months ago

romo

9.2

First bottle three years ago had more energy. Went sour on day 2. — 2 months ago

Matt Perlman

9.3

This is, as expected, the more structured between the Sassella and the Grumello of the same vintage, but on this night actually preferred the latter. — a month ago

Chris Buggy

9.0

I need wine with enough body to hold up to strong Indian flavors, but light and clean..CHECK — a month ago

with Jennifer

Marc Karetsky

9.5

Love this maker. Classic Nebbiolo. — 2 months ago

GaryWEdwards

9.5

A winner straight out of the gate. Sweet cherries and blueberries with hints of smoke. A delight. — a month ago

Matt Perlman

9.4

More open knit than the Sassella, total deliciousness and high toned elegance — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

10

This was perfection. Full stop. Ten points, 100, A plus, whatever scale you want to drag into the room, it all collapses under the same truth: it does not get better than this. The 2016 Ar.Pe.Pe. Sassella Rocce Rosse Riserva was so achingly beautiful, so complete, so internally right, that halfway through I stopped even trying to “evaluate” it and just gave in. What makes it unbearable, in the best way, is how nothing sticks out and yet everything glows. The wine has lift, detail, soul, delicacy, authority, all of it moving at once, all of it perfectly proportioned. It just stands there in complete command of itself, and the longer it sits in the glass the more it seems to reveal that perfection and grace are not opposites. They are partners. Words really do start to fail with a wine like this, because the whole point of the experience is that it reaches past language. — 2 months ago