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Tasted Saturday, February 1, 2020 by kenv with 378 views
Morning Tasting of 2015 Barolos at Antonio Galloni Vinous Media's La Festa del Barolo 2020.
All wines were opened around 9:30am and served cool (cellar temp). The tasting ran from 10:30am to 12:30am. The tasting was followed by lunch.
2015 is an appealing vintage. The wines are uniformly forward and relatively open for Barolo so young. The quality seems quite consistent. I used the word "sweet" in almost all the tasting notes. Here I mean sweet tasting fruit and not residual sugar. In this regard, 2015 reminds me of 2007 with perhaps a bit more consistency.
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Antonio said these wines were new in some way. Clearly true of Trediberri, a new winery and new to La Festa. I'm not sure what is new about the others.
This was my eighth of these structured new release tastings at La Festa del Barolo. This one might be the most consistent in terms of the quality of the wines. The 2015 Barolos have lots of sweet fruit and enough structure for medium term cellaring. OTOH, I don't find a lot of the typicity of vintages such as 2013 and 2010. That is, the vineyard is not as prominent in these wines as those of 2010 and 2013. I expect the 2015s to be fully ready before the wines of those vintages.
2015 Fratelli Brovia Barolo Rocche di Castiglione 92 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
[Alex Sanchez said that his father-in-law, Giacinto Brovia, bought this parcel in Rocche di Castiglione in 1968.] Lovely nose of sweet red fruit. Sweet, medium body, long, elegant. Young, but you could drink it today with pleasure. Probably better to give it a decade in the cellar. 91-93
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2015 Azienda Bricco Rocche (Ceretto) Barolo Bricco Rocche 93 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
[Alessandro Ceretto said that they used new barrique until 2005. Since 2010, they have gone biodynamic, started using large botti, and replanted half this vineyard using massal selection. This smallest of all MGAs is a Ceretto monopole. It is between Rocche di Castiglione and Villero.]
Reserved nose. Long and juicy in the mouth. Elegant and tasty. This is the best young wine I have tasted from Ceretto in some time.
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2015 Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione 93 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
[First time for Oddero at La Festa. Mariacristina "Cristina" Oddero mentioned that Rocche di Castiglione was the first single-vineyard wine made by her winery. ]
Pure red plum nose. Rich and sweet in the mouth. Medium length. Delicious. More black fruit in the mouth as it opens. Expansive and impressive. Serious Barolo. 93-??
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2015 Vietti Barolo Rocche di Castiglione 93 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo
Huge sweet black fruit nose with hints of vanilla. Silky black fruit with firm tannins underneath. More new oak than I like, but it should integrate with time. 92-94
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