2016 Vietti Barolo Rocche di Castiglione

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 97.4 points

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  3/11/2024 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  The '16 Rocche opens with an incredible perfume of dark red to black berry fruit, citrus peel, red floral tones, menthol, and spice, with the aromatics showing beautiful sweetness. While I don't think the aromatics are quite as open and vibrant as they were on release in 2020, for a Barolo of its caliber and age, this is quite open aromatically.
  
  On the palate, I found the wine medium plus in body with beautiful inner sweetness and a significant amount of very finessed tannins, with the level of sweetness and medium plus acidity providing a lot of energy to the wine. Texturally, the wine will definitely benefit from time in the cellar for the tannins to integrate, and I also found the palate a bit more clenched than the aromatics. I found dark red to black berry fruits, sweet spices, dark florals, and a touch of anise, all a bit reticent.
  
  The '16 Rocche seems every bit as impressive as in 2020 although as you'd expect it has clenched up a bit, in need of another 10+ years to be in its prime (a recent bottle of the '10 Rocche was one of the few '10s I regretted opening in a horizontal, for what it's worth). My score is a notch lower than my notes from 2020, reflecting less the wine and more so that I've had a lot of great wine over the past 4 years that has driven my perception of the relative quality here down a touch.

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  9/13/2022 - SARED Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This will be an explosive wine in 20 year’s time. Perfumed nose with no single dominant note of: violet, dried rose, dark red berries, spice. On palate I found raspberry, black cherry and violets. Med+ acids. Prominent tannin on the finish. A very long finish with raspberry and tannins. In 15-20 years this wine has the chance to be full of purple violets alongside more common Barolo notes – which would be rather stunning. My wine-searcher alert for the release price will never be triggered.

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  6/29/2022 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 97 Points

  An incredible ~20 wines tasted with incredible knowledge transfer about Vietti (they are badass if you haven't had their wines)- wines, history, style, etc. No note, impressions only. Speed tasting.
  
  Wow. This is a Wow wine. Anything else I write is meaningless. Amazing, dark red fruit, super everything- flavors, structure, complexity, minerals, long finish- awesome

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  1/5/2022 - Decarlor wrote: 99 Points

  Almost perfect. Maybe worth 100 points in a few years. One of the best Barolo a in one of the best ever vintages

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  11/7/2020 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Barolo 2016 arrivage tasting; 11/6/2020-11/7/2020 (@Home): Glass: Riedel Vinum Burgundy
  Drunk from 0,1l bottle that was professionally filled from original 0,75l bottle two days before.
  Clear, deep garnet color with tawny reflexes. Clean, medium+ intense nose. Lots of chalky mineral notes, dried petals and blossoms, fine red fruit. Ethereal, deep and beautiful.
  Dry, high, beautiful racy acidity. 14,5% abv. High, fine grained tannin that gives the wine a beautiful velvety texture.
  Very mineral, salty, great fine red fruit, herbaceous. A bit more masculine than the Lazzarito, with more pressure, but otherwise equally great. Beautiful balance, very complex and so juicy and joyful to drink! Very long, complex and multi-dimensional finish! Obviously young, but already an amazing wine. Great potential. 95++

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