2008 Roberto Voerzio Barbera d'Alba Riserva Vigneto Pozzo dell'Annunziata

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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

  The '08 Pozzo dell'Annunziata is among the best Barberas I have tasted, and certainly at this age, it is holding up better than I could have imagined (that said, this was out of 3L for what it's worth).
  
  The nose was beautifully perfumed with dark red cherry fruit, espresso, leather, and roasted meats. On the palate, the wine was medium-bodied with great inner sweetness and high acidity, and a very smooth texture with integrated tannins. The wine retained youthful, sweet dark cherry fruit notes alongside some savory characteristics of leather and spices.
  
  It seems likely, at least out of this format, this could go another decade or more, but it was so enjoyable today, combining primary characteristics of sweet dark fruit, some savory complexity, and a perfect texture, so I don't know if it could get much better.

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  11/18/2017 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points

  Roberto Voerzio Tasting (Vino Italiano Waltham): Wow - this is Barbera?? This takes all of the nice things about Barbera and expresses them about three times more eloquently than any other Barbera I've ever had. This is marvelous. Dark, ripe, dynamic, grapey but still totally elegant and beautifully balanced. A beautiful mouthfeel. 93-94

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  11/11/2017 - dcwino wrote: 94 Points

  2017 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium - Kelly and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/9/2017-11/14/2017 (Villa D’este, Lake Como and Milan): En double magnum. As expected from Voerzio Barbare, this is an incredibly concentrated and big scale Barbera. A hint of VA, mostly dark cherry, dry cherry, licorice, baking spices, vanilla, espresso, tar and mineral. Incredibly concentrated, layers upon layers of intense jammy black fruit, bright acidity, strong mineral presence and a long deeply toned black fruit driven finish. Certainly not for everyone. If you love big cal cabs and want to start explorer Piedmont wines, this may not be a bad introduction.

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  1/19/2014 - galenico Likes this wine: 94 Points

  ROBERTO VOERZIO VERTICAL (FLORENCE - WINE IN PROGRESS 17/11/2013): Il quarto Pozzo dell' Annunziata ( non ricordo le annate assaggiate negli anni scorsi),
  ma ogni volta è un evento....
  La Barbera è un vitigno sempre pronto, sia che lo si beva appena imbottigliato, sia che abbia 10 anni di vita..... se poi si parla della migliore Barbera sul pianeta.... non si può che sorridere
  e continuare a bere, e poi di nuovo sorridere!!!
  Il naso è precissimo, con un frutto potentissimo, inebriante e quasi cremoso già solo a sentirlo.
  In bocca è incredibile, non ci sono parole.... sembra di prendere un grappolo d' uva e strizzarselo in gola.... infinito e vellutato.
  Ogni volta che lo bevo, mi chiedo se vale quello che costa, ma è uno dei migliori vini che io abbia bevuto, e lo berrei per sempre!!

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  12/1/2012 - stadler wrote:

  Grand Tasting 2012 avec 5 membres de la SCO (Carroussel du Louvre, Paris, France): Le fruité du Barbera donne une attaque en souplesse mais la fin de bouche est dominée par les tanins et l'alcool, pas prêt aujourd'hui.

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