2019 Vietti Barbaresco Roncaglie Masseria

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  4/1/2024 - connorpksmith Likes this wine: 94 Points

  PnP for three hours. My notes are very consistent with everyone else's. The aromatics of this wine were spellbinding. However, the palate will need 10-15 years for the tannins to thin out. There's a lot of potential here if the tannins calm down. 94

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  1/20/2024 - DevenStephens Likes this wine: 97 Points

  I want to start this by saying that I feel like the nose and palate should get different scores. So I will try to separate both in this tasting note. First off the color is light red with orange in the rim.
  
  The nose was bewitching. I swear I spent nearly 30 minutes just smelling the wine. It just has so much going on. Dried strawberries, blood oranges, grapefruit, passion fruit and candied sour cherries. I woke up a childhood memory and maybe some of you know what this is, but Strawberry Fruitopia. It's a sweet fruit drink popular around here and this has a smell that makes me think of that. Seriously though, you can smell this wine a fair distance from the glass, it comes to get you and lure you in. A smell that makes you curious about the taste but at the same time, how could it get any better? To me the smell was near perfect. I could give it 100 points, it's that special and unique. Could more aging actually make this better?
  
  Now the palate. I have to agree with Rob, this is an electric wine with a lot of energy. Strawberries, raspberries, cranberries so on the sour red fruit side. Oranges, roses, incense and red sour cherries. Fine tannins and high acidity, it has a very long finish with some licorice hiding in there as well. It's very enjoyable to drink now but I feel like some time in the cellar would make this a stellar wine on the palate. To me where the palate is right now is worth 95 points but it can absolutely only go up from here.
  
  Together the nose and palate make for a truly outstanding wine, an amazing experience to drink. The nose is near perfection and the palate is beautiful. Really curious on what 5-10-15+ years would do to this wine. For now, 97+ points makes sense to me. I think it could go higher with some time. I will be remembering that smell for a long time.

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  11/10/2023 - Motz wrote: 95 Points

  Riveting perfume! All Nebbiolo, all the way! This noted, a bit of a head-scratcher stylistically, shading toward the brawn of Barolo.
  
  Wondrously raw power here! Literally, massive! Savage tannins! An assault on the senses, in every good way...as in...check back in in fifteen years.
  
  More broadly, somewhat wild. It came off fairly hot. A powerhouse! Let it rest. 95-96.

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  6/8/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  The '19 Barbaresco is a wild young wine. Immediately after uncorking, a rush of floral and sweet, hard candy like fruit aromas burst out of the bottle.
  
  In the glass, the aromatics of the wine are super expressive and captivating. I found an exotic expression with blood orange and grapefruit, hard candy like red fruits and red floral tones, spices, and chalk. On the palate, the wine is electric with high acidity and a beautiful sweetness to the fruit. There's so much energy here that it is a thrill to drink even if it is not nearly as expressive on the palate as the aromatics. Sweet red fruit and floral tones, a hint of fresh orange and grapefruit are joined by smoke / incense on the long finish, with a bit of a Pinot-like fruit and smoke/spice profile on the finish. There is a lot of tannin, but it's so fine grained and there is so much energy that the wine is fun to drink already, for my taste. That said, I think this wine is likely to be best after a long time in the cellar. This seems equally, if not more, age-worthy than the wines from Barolo from Vietti in '19.

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  5/19/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A little bit shy at first, so gave it a vigorous decant. An hour later the fireworks erupted. Plenty of floral spice here along with a sweet core of Maraschino cherry fruit. There’s a jubey quality to the wine and some pink grapefruit too. It is lifted, lacy and really builds through the palate.

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