2007 Roberto Voerzio Barolo La Serra

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  3/4/2024 - whitmanlholt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Popped and poured, then put the remaining roughly 1/3 of a bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. This is a cherry red wine with rusty orange notes starting to show through at the rim. The nose is great and very expressive (and clearly better on day 1 than day 2), showing cherries, rosehips, wet soil, and some damp iron or steel aspects. In the mouth, the wine is crisp and focused, largely revolving around the red fruit characteristics. The finish is chewy, medium length, and gave me a bit of natural licorice. Overall, I thought this was very solid and found it to be a far better bottle than the last one I had in 2018. There should be plenty of gas left in the tank, though, so there is upside potential. 92+ points.

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  2/12/2024 - DerBismarck Likes this wine: 98 Points

  This is barolo I did not take proper notes but I remember this wine fondly and this might have been the best bottle I drank in 2023.

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  7/23/2022 - edwine__ Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Very Italian nose with the aromas of leather, tar, licorice and earthy. It is a big, huge, muscular wine with full mouth tannins. Not a fan. Curious why JS gives it 100 points😏😏😏

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  5/20/2022 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The '07 La Serra is a dark beast of a wine, but it appears ready to drink today, as I already found it to be a more savory than fruit-forward wine. That said, I expect the wine will continue to drink well for a while, and it's possible the wine will benefit more from the tannins integrating further than it will lose further fruit.
  
  On the nose, I found black cherry fruit, game, smoke, leather, and sweet spices. On the palate, the wine was incredibly rich, savory, and dark in expression, with black cherry fruit, leather, game, sweet spices and espresso. Texturally, the wine still has medium to high tannin analytically, although given how richly textured it is, covering the tannins a bit, I found it quite drinkable. Acidity is medium.
  
  I found the '07 La Serra very enjoyable, but it is very much a product of the warm, intense '07 vintage.

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  3/9/2022 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points

  Less and less impressed by high extract at the cost of longevity and problems with retaining freshness. When you hang and squeeze too long and hard, the wines are big, voluptuous and delicious at the beginning, but they seem to tire out over time. This is what I am feeling here having drank a bottle twice over the last couple years. Definitely a decline from last time with a rather Merlot like thickness and far from a Barolo.If blind, I would have bet you this was anything but a Barolo...Developing some warm middle eastern spice within the finish, telling me the time is NOW. DRINK

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