2013 Cascina Roccalini Barbaresco Riserva Roccalini

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  12/31/2023 - sburtt wrote: 91 Points

  last bottle was a blow off, this one started with a slight taint of oak/VA, that faded away quick, nose lovely, fruit and flowers, love the gentle color, and soft tannin, but for me there is a sweetness on the palate that after a few sips becomes tiering, not sure I love this fase of the wine, but may be this bottle... 4 more to go

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  2/26/2023 - sburtt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  very interesting, great potential, good now with a decant, but no rush to drink, nice old school wine

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  12/22/2022 - jrick Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Some of the reviews below had me fearing opening this. I bought it (two bottles) on the strength of the showing of the 2011 in a restaurant a few years back. That bottle showed quite elegant, which the notes on this wine does not seem to agree with. But this my first bottle of the 2013 echoes that 2011, I think it is a markedly clean and fresh and as a result quite elegant expression of Barbaresco; rosehip, orange and raspberry fruit hitting it off with their buddies rose petals and tar and their little brother known as tiny hint of cough syrop. The tannins have that reassuringly niggling quality and the acidity is fresh although maybe not that high, I think 3-5 years will be good for my second and last bottle.

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  3/21/2021 - s******n Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Klassischer traditioneller N. Toll! Kann man jetzt schon trinken. Wird aber mit mehr Lagerung sicherlich noch gewinnen.

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  1/20/2020 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  A traditionalist and minimal-interventionist Barbaresco: fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in concrete, macerated for a whopping 60 days by keeping the cap submerged in wine (no punch-downs or pump-overs). This Riserva is made only in good enough vintages. Aged for 24 months in large oak casks. Bottled without fining or filtration and with minimum effective sulfites (25-30 mg/l). 14% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Pale, luminous and very translucent raspberry red color with a light pink rim. Big and sweet - borderline jammy - yet surprisingly robust nose of strawberry jam, wizened dark plums, some dried figs, a little bit of balsamic VA, light licorice tones, a hint of peppery spice and a touch of campfire smoke. The wine is quite full-bodied, juicy and quite mellow on the palate with dry-ish flavors of ripe dark berries and sweet black cherries, some stony minerality, a little bit of blackberry marmalade, light gravelly tones, a hint of smoke and a touch of brambly raspberry. The wine feels quite soft with its medium-to-moderately high acidity and ripe, textural medium tannins. The finish is somewhat grippy, slightly warm and quite long with flavors of raspberries, sour cherries, some ripe blackberries, a little bit of gravelly minerality, a bright hint of tart red plums and a touch of strawberry jam.
  
  A big, soft and accessible Barbaresco. Although the wine is lower in alcohol than the previous iteration, 2011, which clocked at whopping 15%, this version feels otherwise bigger and more ripe with its slightly sweeter-toned fruit and noticeably softer, mellow tannins. The wine is certainly very approachable now, but, conversely, doesn't seem to hold such aging potential one would wish from a Riserva Barbaresco. Although not a bad wine in any way, this was still something of a disappointment, since the regular Roccalini 2013 is one of the greatest young Barbarescos I know. This feels just a bigger, sweeter and softer - and thus somewhat underwhelming - version of that magnificent wine.

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