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2013 Bruno Rocca Barbaresco

Nebbiolo

  • Italy
  • Piedmont
  • Langhe
  • Barbaresco
Drink between 2020 - 2027 (Edit)
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Community Tasting Notes 14

  • Lyubomir Lefterov wrote: 90 points

    March 6, 2024 - Well disappointed with this one. Gave it enough time in decanter to come to its senses but remained austere and edge-y. There is a slight burnt caramel component, whether overripe fruit or from wood, I am not sure, but that actually put me off. Was the weakest bottle of last night flight. 14.5% alc.

  • Neras Likes this wine: 94 points

    May 28, 2023 - Starting to show to brown edges. Rose. Tar. Fresh, with quite strong tannins. Red berries. Keeps lingering. Has developed well, and has plenty of years left.

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  • HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 points

    October 1, 2022 - Another bottle opened. Very similar bouquet and palate descriptors to those in my April 2022 note. However, the major difference was that this bottle was much more closed. Dense and tight. A high quality Rabajà-style Barbaresco but - like for many quality 2013s - I’d hold it for a few more years. Cellar until 2025+. I can only imagine how closed are the 2013 Bruno Rocca single vineyards and Riservas! 92+.

  • HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 points

    April 21, 2022 - Recent wines drunk at home: Drunk from Zalto Denk'Art Burgundy glass over two evenings. On the second evening, the Bruno Rocca Normale seemed even richer and plummier. Rabajà-style Barbaresco on bouquet and palate. Kirsch and vibrant red cherries, wild raspberries and red currants, spices and red rose perfumes. Sweeter-seeming than the Cavallotto (even as a 2009). Also, a sweet-seeming, ripe and opulent fruit attack on palate. Primary and fruit forward. However not, to my palate, surmaturité or a New World fruit bomb. Some savouriness on the mid palate. Largely red fruit, some clay, cocoa, espresso and a little grapefruit citrus. Silky tannins, decent acidity. A touch too much alcohol (14.5% ABV), although largely absorbed by the fleshy fruit. Delicious. Fully open for easy drinking. To drink from now over the 2020s+.

  • BAJRiley wrote: 93 points

    September 11, 2020 - Bright ruby/crimson, medium depth of colour. Nose: intensely and seductively perfumed, sweet raspberries and red cherries, roses and violets, spice and a hint of earthiness and oak. Palate: pronounced tannins as expected for Nebbiolo, but nonetheless smooth. Refined and elegant, medium to light bodied. Great finish. Excellent. First time I've had a bottle by this producer and certainly not the last.

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Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2013
  • Type Red
  • Producer Bruno Rocca
  • Varietal Nebbiolo
  • Designation n/a
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country Italy
  • Region Piedmont
  • SubRegion Langhe
  • Appellation Barbaresco
  • UPC Code 9800001399100

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  • Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
  • In Cellars 236 (63%)
  • Consumed 138 (37%)

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