Oddero Vigna Rionda Riserva Barolo Nebbiolo

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

8.8

4/24/22 Hot vintage. Early harvest. Tad fecal. Blows off. Most limestone in Barolo, pure white soils. Still has good acidity.

May 18th, 2022

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.8

Orange peel. Dried cherries. Dark. Warm. Brooding. Cassis. Violets. Amazing intensity but bright, alive.

Apr 28th, 2022

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

A follow up birthday celebration that was a dual celebration of Sofia & our friend Judy with friends.

I started decanting this at 3:30 and it finally blossomed after nearly six hours in the decanter. I was concerned that maybe it was going to be a second day wine and readied back up bottles.

Served out of magnum and still a beast. I acquired this from the secondary market a number of weeks back. So, it was someone else’s storage. When I opened it, the wine had run about halfway along the cork & slid slightly. Early on, it gave me reason for concern. The taste was slightly off as was the nose...not bad. But, not what I expected tasting it over the first two hours. It was at this point, I pulled a couple of back up bottles.

After I put it back into the bottle and re-decanted it at our friends house, it slowly started to blossom.

The first two hours, it had a fair amount of funk & huge tannins. Many of the aeronautics were dull.

After five hours, the fruits were beautifully, bright, floral, ripe & slightly sour dark cherries, dark currants, black raspberries, black raspberries, plums, raspberries, incense, ambers, anise, very dark spices, pronounced cinnamon stick, nutmeg, clove & vanilla, tobacco, leather, cedar, dry crushed rocks, limestone, deluded, rich, dark soils, truly, elegant, brilliant florals that were dark, red, some blue, framed in some of the most beautiful florals of violets & lavender I’ve experienced. The acidity was a spot on running river. The finish was; glorious, well balanced & knitted, elegant, fruit juicy, landing squarely on spice & earth as it long set & lasting several minutes.

Beautiful wine after hours of stubbornness.

Paired with my slow cooked two day meat sauce. 14 seasonings, whole pork roast braised in oil & garlic and placed into the sauce until it shreds apart, pepperoni & Italian bread crumb meatballs. The best I’ve made it in 30 years of making it. I never measure anything but, going to have to very specifically write down what I did this time. 🤔😜🍝