Smells of plum, dark cherry, bitter chocolate and iron filings. It is meaty, muscular and very savoury. Fruit is ripe and there's generosity to the wine. Length is good with chewy Barolo tannins. Drink this while your 2010's age.
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Macerated with the skins for 12 days. Aged for 26 months in oak (half in 350 liter casks, half in 3000 liter botti). Bottled unfiltered. Alc 15%.
Translucent pomegranate color with quite dark core and slightly mature rims with a hint of bricking. A bit closed, reticent nose with fragrant Nebbiolo aromatics of sour cherries and dried flowers. Dry, moderately full-bodied and grippy palate that shows some concentration. Ripe flavors of ripe red cherries, brambly dark berries, exotic spice, some sweet, plummy fruit and a faint undercurrent of sweet oak aromatics. Balanced, moderate acidity. Rich, long and fruit-forward finish with some alcohol warmth, quite a lot of tannic grip and flavors of ripe, dark fruit, red cherry, some oak spice and a hint of chocolate.
This is a very ripe, rich and fruit-forward modernist Barolo, with more emphasis on rich fruit and good structure than on heavy use of new oak and early drinking quality. Discounting the somewhat prominent alcohol, this is a quite well-made, balanced and structured Barolo that seems to require some years in the cellar - now the wine is very youthful and also in a bit dumb phase, especially aromatically. A wine I wouldn't hold on to for decades, but will probably start drinking nicely closer to 2020 when the wine gains a bit more depth and complexity and hopefully loses some of that dark-toned oak sweetness. Solid value at only 23€ - one of the least expensive Baroli I've seen in the recent years.
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4/27/2016 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Rich, ripe and fruits driven. Loaded with raisins, cherry and blackberries. It is full, generous and fleshy with a puff of chalk to the finish.
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7/2/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Smells of plum, dark cherry, bitter chocolate and iron filings. It is meaty, muscular and very savoury. Fruit is ripe and there's generosity to the wine. Length is good with chewy Barolo tannins. Drink this while your 2010's age.
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4/19/2015 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points
Macerated with the skins for 12 days. Aged for 26 months in oak (half in 350 liter casks, half in 3000 liter botti). Bottled unfiltered. Alc 15%.
Translucent pomegranate color with quite dark core and slightly mature rims with a hint of bricking. A bit closed, reticent nose with fragrant Nebbiolo aromatics of sour cherries and dried flowers. Dry, moderately full-bodied and grippy palate that shows some concentration. Ripe flavors of ripe red cherries, brambly dark berries, exotic spice, some sweet, plummy fruit and a faint undercurrent of sweet oak aromatics. Balanced, moderate acidity. Rich, long and fruit-forward finish with some alcohol warmth, quite a lot of tannic grip and flavors of ripe, dark fruit, red cherry, some oak spice and a hint of chocolate.
This is a very ripe, rich and fruit-forward modernist Barolo, with more emphasis on rich fruit and good structure than on heavy use of new oak and early drinking quality. Discounting the somewhat prominent alcohol, this is a quite well-made, balanced and structured Barolo that seems to require some years in the cellar - now the wine is very youthful and also in a bit dumb phase, especially aromatically. A wine I wouldn't hold on to for decades, but will probably start drinking nicely closer to 2020 when the wine gains a bit more depth and complexity and hopefully loses some of that dark-toned oak sweetness. Solid value at only 23€ - one of the least expensive Baroli I've seen in the recent years.
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