Le Rocche Dei Barbari
Riserva Alivio Barbaresco Nebbiolo
Barbaresco, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
Light reddish in color with light intensity.
Really pretty nose, with nice elegance.
Light to medium in body with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity and mouthfeel.
Showing raspberries, cherries, red currants, light wood, spices, wild flowers, chocolates and tobacco.
Medium plus on the finish with round tannins and tangy raspberries.
This is a very tasty Barbaresco with some nice age to it. Elegant and rich. Complex with good structure.
This 8 year old Barbaresco is still young, and will continue to age nicely in the next 15 to 20 years. I had the 1998 not too long ago and it was so much better.
Easy drinking and good by itself or with food.
100% Nebbiolo grapes were aged for 5 years in Oak and Concrete tanks.
14% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$80.
Light reddish in color with light intensity.
Really pretty nose, with nice elegance.
Light to medium in body with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity and mouthfeel.
Showing raspberries, cherries, red currants, light wood, spices, wild flowers, chocolates and tobacco.
Medium plus on the finish with round tannins and tangy raspberries.
This is a very tasty Barbaresco with some nice age to it. Elegant and rich. Complex with good structure.
This 8 year old Barbaresco is still young, and will continue to age nicely in the next 15 to 20 years. I had the 1998 not too long ago and it was so much better.
Easy drinking and good by itself or with food.
100% Nebbiolo grapes were aged for 5 years in Oak and Concrete tanks.
14% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$80.
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Dark ruby in color with a short brick rim.
Beautiful nose of red and black fruits with wood, tobacco, dried meat, herbs, light oak, spices, herbs, earth and mushrooms.
Medium bodied with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with plums, currants, cooked cherries, spices, bitter herbs, earth, light wood, mushrooms and black pepper.
Long finish with round tannins and cherries.
Now, THIS is a very unique wine from Barbaresco. Spent 20 years of aging. Nicely balanced and elegant. Tangy and complex.
Drinking beautifully now, and will continue to drink nicely in the next 10 years. Still has more oomph in it, with good acidity. Would be interesting to revisit it in 5 years.
Rich, yet elegant. Soft and smooth. A gorgeous and very interesting aged Barbaresco. Smoky and spicy with good structure.
A good quality wine, and good by itself as a sipping wine.
100% Nebbiolo grapes were aged in oak and concrete vats for 20 years. Bottled in 2018.
13.5% alcohol by volume.
94 points.
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Dark ruby in color with a short brick rim.
Beautiful nose of red and black fruits with wood, tobacco, dried meat, herbs, light oak, spices, herbs, earth and mushrooms.
Medium bodied with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with plums, currants, cooked cherries, spices, bitter herbs, earth, light wood, mushrooms and black pepper.
Long finish with round tannins and cherries.
Now, THIS is a very unique wine from Barbaresco. Spent 20 years of aging. Nicely balanced and elegant. Tangy and complex.
Drinking beautifully now, and will continue to drink nicely in the next 10 years. Still has more oomph in it, with good acidity. Would be interesting to revisit it in 5 years.
Rich, yet elegant. Soft and smooth. A gorgeous and very interesting aged Barbaresco. Smoky and spicy with good structure.
A good quality wine, and good by itself as a sipping wine.
100% Nebbiolo grapes were aged in oak and concrete vats for 20 years. Bottled in 2018.
13.5% alcohol by volume.
94 points.
Nose is a bit tight now but has unreal spice. Cardamon, clove, spicecake, vulcanized rubber, melting road tar, dried roses, and whoah levels of spice. But it will expand as it aerates. The palate is where it is at right now. Wow. Wow. Elegant and delicate but so so deeply fruited with glorious mid to early season cherry and so much energy and freshness and just off the charts mineral complexity. What a finish with gorgeous velvety tannins and a sicko finish that takes over your mouth. Tannins are initially drying but so juicy and refined and will velvet out as that what these wines do. Let’s see where air takes this. Now after an hour the nose is heaven. Wow. Roses galore. Soy. Spice has integrated. Gorgeous clear minerality. Wow that palate is just incredible now. Deep, rich and sweet but unreal finesse, sweet tannins and just the most perfect balance. Just stunning. 9.5 to 9.6.
Nose is a bit tight now but has unreal spice. Cardamon, clove, spicecake, vulcanized rubber, melting road tar, dried roses, and whoah levels of spice. But it will expand as it aerates. The palate is where it is at right now. Wow. Wow. Elegant and delicate but so so deeply fruited with glorious mid to early season cherry and so much energy and freshness and just off the charts mineral complexity. What a finish with gorgeous velvety tannins and a sicko finish that takes over your mouth. Tannins are initially drying but so juicy and refined and will velvet out as that what these wines do. Let’s see where air takes this. Now after an hour the nose is heaven. Wow. Roses galore. Soy. Spice has integrated. Gorgeous clear minerality. Wow that palate is just incredible now. Deep, rich and sweet but unreal finesse, sweet tannins and just the most perfect balance. Just stunning. 9.5 to 9.6.
May 20th, 2024Aroma is sick. Juicy and complex. A bit too buzzed to take a real note. This is the recent bottling as these guys bottle on demand. It’s younger than the first batch. Much better on day 2.
Aroma is sick. Juicy and complex. A bit too buzzed to take a real note. This is the recent bottling as these guys bottle on demand. It’s younger than the first batch. Much better on day 2.
Nov 28th, 2020Wow. This stopped me in my tracks. Nose of chestnut, spice, tar, roses, no fruit. So deep. But this is just opened and I know this is gonna be mind bending in an hour or three. The florals are so crazy and man o man the beautiful high end tobacco and endless flowers is something to behold! Wow! So much spice and old library book with hints of freshly cleaned and a once used chimney and a freshly burned out fire. This nose is layered and so deep and keeps revealing itself. 9.7 on the nose. Palate is brilliant. Hints of opulence abound but this has daggers and angles for days with ridiculous freshness and finesse. Just incredible. Massive concentration and huge minerality. Velvety and substantial tannins and very long. Like one sip is a 3 minute experience. Explosive like nothing else. This is regal and the best Barbaresco I’ve had in years. What energy and freshness on the palate. No hard edges. Complex, deep and so concentrated. This has some slight brambly cherry fruit but if this is like the Primanebbia this will take 3 hours or longer for the fruit to be truly expressive. Long. Just so damn impressive.
Now after air this is just insane. This airiness one associated with whites wines. Palate has now insane mega fruit that is so juicy, so dense and so impressive you cannot believe all the tannin from the first hour has been transformed into gorgeous cherry fruit with insanely detailed silky tannins. Wow. So ethereal. 9.7 to 9.8.
Wow. This stopped me in my tracks. Nose of chestnut, spice, tar, roses, no fruit. So deep. But this is just opened and I know this is gonna be mind bending in an hour or three. The florals are so crazy and man o man the beautiful high end tobacco and endless flowers is something to behold! Wow! So much spice and old library book with hints of freshly cleaned and a once used chimney and a freshly burned out fire. This nose is layered and so deep and keeps revealing itself. 9.7 on the nose. Palate is brilliant. Hints of opulence abound but this has daggers and angles for days with ridiculous freshness and finesse. Just incredible. Massive concentration and huge minerality. Velvety and substantial tannins and very long. Like one sip is a 3 minute experience. Explosive like nothing else. This is regal and the best Barbaresco I’ve had in years. What energy and freshness on the palate. No hard edges. Complex, deep and so concentrated. This has some slight brambly cherry fruit but if this is like the Primanebbia this will take 3 hours or longer for the fruit to be truly expressive. Long. Just so damn impressive.
Now after air this is just insane. This airiness one associated with whites wines. Palate has now insane mega fruit that is so juicy, so dense and so impressive you cannot believe all the tannin from the first hour has been transformed into gorgeous cherry fruit with insanely detailed silky tannins. Wow. So ethereal. 9.7 to 9.8.
Still young. Put away for a long time.
Still young. Put away for a long time.
Jul 5th, 2022
A bit sweet but still tannic. It would be matured to this direction. 2012 @, Boboli, 211125
A bit sweet but still tannic. It would be matured to this direction. 2012 @, Boboli, 211125
Nov 25th, 2021Transparent pale garnet. Red flower. It gave something to my brain. One hour later it opened. Mushroom earthy etc. but still acidic. Need more years. 2009 @, Boboli, 211118
Transparent pale garnet. Red flower. It gave something to my brain. One hour later it opened. Mushroom earthy etc. but still acidic. Need more years. 2009 @, Boboli, 211118
Nov 18th, 2021