Older Barolos are so much better than their younger siblings. Unlike Bordeaux just a 3 7 year span can charm these wines. This wine has chocolate and coffee tones a bit of citrus and a very earthy overlay. Decanted for an hour and drank over 4 hrs. The last glass was like red velvet. The first glass wasn’t to shabby either — 7 years ago
Floral aromas of rose petals and violets on the nose. In the glass, concentrated red berry fruit, good acidity, and dry, chewy tannins. Benefits from some time to open up before drinking. Should drink beautifully now and for 10 years or more. — 9 years ago
Ruby/ brick in color with medium intensity.
Red fruits on the nose with light oak, tobacco and chocolate notes.
Medium bodied with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with cherries, plums, currants, light wood, spices, coffee, earth, dark chocolates, tobacco leaf, herbs and black pepper.
Medium plus on the finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
What a delicious Barolo. Elegant and rich. Complex and interesting. Well balanced with a nice mouthfeel.
The 2019 vintage in Barolo was excellent. This Single Vineyard is particularly unique for the vintage as it is already very approachable.
Will continue to age nicely in the next 10 to 20 years. Would be nice to revisit it in 7 years.
Easy drinking right out of the bottle, and good by itself as a sipping wine.
100% Nebbiolo grapes were aged in large Slavonian oak barrels for 4 years.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$120. — 5 months ago
10 years and still a tannic wall letting out a wiff of rose — 3 years ago
JR wine first taste 3/12/17. Bright red fruit and perfumy nose. Great balance of fruit and earthy notes and supple body on palate with nice medium finish. Yum. 6,666 bottles. Fossati, Collareto and Sant'Anna vineyards. — 8 years ago
Riccardo L.
BOOM. explosion. — a month ago