Piemonte
2017 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Gramolere
With some 7,000 bottles released, the Fratelli Alessandria 2017 Barolo Gramolere gives us a taste of fruit from Monforte d'Alba, as opposed to Verduno, where this winery is based. The Nebbiolo from this further-flung village shows deep power and equal gra...
2018 Alessandria, F. Barolo San Lorenzo
The Fratelli Alessandria 2018 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno opens to a delicate and ethereal personality with fluttering aromas of blue flower, cassis, candied grapefruit and white pepper. The bouquet is fragrant and lifted, giving way to a subtle but ver...
2018 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Monvigliero
The 2018 Barolo Monvigliero shows a beautiful signature of pressed violets, rose garden, white stone, crushed peppercorn and grilled rosemary. The wine is smooth and soft in texture, yet it feels stitched up and firm at the back thanks to the support it g...
2018 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Gramolere
The 2018 Barolo Gramolere is another gorgeous wine from Alessandria. It has the same translucent character I saw from barrel. The tannins remain a bit edgy, perhaps because of what appears to be a bit less fruit depth. Savory, floral and mineral notes ...
2019 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Comune di Verduno
These village-specific wines are growing in popularity, and among the various expressions on the market today, this wine from Verduno is really quite special thanks to its highly distinctive floral aromas and its delicate sense of inner balance. A new pro...
2019 Alessandria, F. Barolo San Lorenzo
This vineyard delivers slightly more concentrated fruit and a medium-dark appearance from loamy calcareous soils. The 2019 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno delivers more oomph and power with ripe cherry, blackcurrant, dark spice and earthy aromas. Fratelli A...
2019 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Monvigliero
The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero shows a medium dark garnet appearance with an especially focused quality of fruit. There is wild cherry and Japanese plum, but the Monvigliero cru also delivers crushed rose, earthy iris root, candied orange peel with clove and...
2019 Alessandria, F. - Barolo Gramolere
The 2019 Barolo Gramolere (with 7000 bottles made) shows a slightly sweeter and riper fruit profile. This wine comes from the village of Monforte d'Alba which is known for more structured and powerful wines compared to Verduno (where this winery is based)...
2016 Azelia - Barolo San Rocco
This is probably the bottle you put at the back of your cellar while the others...
2015 Azelia - Barolo San Rocco
There is a lot of fruit ripeness in the 2015 Barolo San Rocco, with blackberry, wild berry, plush softness, spice and licorice. The fruit is nicely balanced and shows bright intensity. Located in Serralunga d'Alba, San Rocco was purchased by Luigi Scavino...
2018 Azelia Barolo
Focused and accessible, featuring earth, tar, tobacco, iron and underbrush aromas that introduce flavors of cherry and plum. Ripe and balanced, with a long, fresh and firm finish. Best from 2025 through 2042. 1,000 cases made, 200 cases imported.
2017 Azelia - Barolo Cerretta
The 2017 Barolo Cerretta is another powerful wine. Unlike the San Rocco, which is dense in the middle, the Cerretta is distinguished by a more austere, linear feel. Crushed flowers, mint, licorice, blood orange and pine build with time in the glass. Th...
2019 Azelia - Barolo San Rocco
San Rocco is a small MGA located on the northern side of Serralunga d'Alba with steep slopes that open toward Cerretta with clay and limestone. The 2019 Barolo San Rocco (with 7,300 bottles made) benefits from tighter space and a protected microclimate to...
2019 Azelia Barolo Bricco Fiasco
Bricco Fiasco is a proprietary name for a vineyard in Castiglione Falletto with 85 year old vines. Luigi Scavino says, "These vines represent a unique heritage for our family." The 2019 Barolo Bricco Fiasco (with 5,800 bottles released) is a little shy in...
2019 Azelia - Barolo Margheria
Azelia makes three wines with fruit from Serralunga d'Alba, including San Rocco, Cerretta and this wine. There is also a Riserva from Bricco Voghera. The 2019 Barolo Margheria comes from a southwest facing slope opposite the Perno Vineyard. The site has v...
2019 Azelia - Barolo Cerretta
Cerretta is one of my favorite sites in Serralunga d'Alba because it consists of vines wrapped around a hilltop with various exposures. For that reason, Cerretta wines can vary widely from producer to producer. The Azelia 2019 Barolo Cerretta has dark fru...
2018 Barale, Diego Damiano - Barolo
Here's a new submission from Barale Fratelli. Made with a blend of organic fruit from three sites, Coste di Rose, Preda and Castellero, the 2018 Barolo del Comune di Barolo is compact and streamlined and a hair more downplayed compared to the other new re...
2016 Barale, Fratelli - Barolo
Delicate scents evoking forest floor, crushed mint, leather and rose form the nose. On the linear palate, fresh acidity and taut polished tannins accompany red cherry, cranberry and tobacco. An orange-zest note lingers on the close
2015 Barale, Fratelli - Barolo Bussia
Opening to rich dark fruit and thick concentration, the 2015 Barolo Bussia Sergio Barale is a wine of medium to full weight with good textural richness. There are some notes of soft, red fruit scattered among thick waves of dark fruit intensity. This wine...
2015 Barale, Fratelli - Barolo Cannubi
The Barale Fratelli 2015 Barolo Cannubi offers a powerful nose with a hint more alcoholic power (measured at 14.5%) that reminds us of the warm and sunny growing conditions experienced in this vintage. There is a sweet note to the fruit that comes forward...
2015 Boasso - Barolo Margheria
Some fresh leather and bright, ripe red fruit on offer here. This is a quiet, stoic style that has firm and assertive tannins that hold long. Demanding for now, so give this some time. Try from 2023
2019 Boasso Barolo Gabutti
The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers a good definition, gourmandize and juiciness. On the palate this wine expresses notes of fleshy blackberry, fleshy strawberry, small notes of small fleshy/juicy red berries associated with fine touches of ros...
2015 Brezza - Barolo Sarmassa
Brezza's 2015 Barolo Sarmassa is dense, powerful and quite alluring. The tannins need time to soften, but a core of dense fruit lies behind all of the structural intensity that is present today, and is only waiting for the right time to emerge fully. Ment...
2016 Broccardo - Barolo Paiagallo
From a vineyard site in the comune of Barolo at the heart of the appellation, the Broccardo 2016 Barolo Paiagallo shows a dense and loosely knit textural fiber with solid heft and power that gives the wine a heavy center of gravity. This is more of a brai...
2016 Broccardo - Barolo Ravera
Extremely perfumed with dried flowers, such as roses, as well as plums. It's full-bodied and rich with creamy, integrated tannins and an intense finish. Chewy, but polished. Drink after 2022.
2017 Brovia - Barolo Rocche di Castiglione
A release of about 5,000 bottles, the Brovia 2017 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione offers a very elegant take on a wild and hot vintage that was not always easy to tame. The wine's aromatic profile can be described as ripe for sure because you get a generous ...
2018 Brovia - Barolo Ca Mia
The 2018 Barolo Brea Vigna Ca' Mia is a generous, medium-bodied wine with fruit from Serralunga d’Alba. The bouquet reveals brooding tones of black fruit, tarry smoke, plum, iron ore and ferrous earth. The wine is quite elegant and polished, yet the power...
2018 Brovia - Barolo Garblet Sue
The Brovia 2018 Barolo Garblèt Sue' reveals a fine texture with seamless aromas of purple and red forest fruits that appear delicately and softly. Those lifted primary notes are followed by a filigree of spice, tar, truffle and fragrant earth. The wine cl...
2018 Brovia - Barolo Villero
The 2018 Barolo Villero is laser sharp and etched with ferrous mineral notes next to wild berry, cherry, cola, campfire ash and grilled rosemary. This elegant, mid-weight wine shows a very long finish and should not disappoint on the cellar-aging front. I...
2019 Brovia - Barolo
On a shortlist of "annata" wines to buy from Piedmont this year is the Brovia 2019 Barolo. Made from a blend of fruit from Castiglione Falletto and Serralunga d'Alba, this wine delivers a very sharp and chiseled performance that puts a priority on directn...
2018 Bruno Giacosa - Barolo
A fine and pretty Barolo with plenty of strawberry and mushroom character. White truffle, too. It’s medium-to full-bodied and creamy with medium, round tannins. Delicious now and will improve nicely.
2018 Cappellano - Barolo Pie Rupestris
The 2018 Barolo Rupestris is usually a bigger wine than the Franco. It is again in 2018, with more fruit but also more tannin. Accordingly, it may need a bit more time to come into its own. Iron, cedar, white pepper, tobacco and blood orange give the R...
2013 Cavallotto - Barolo Riserva Vignolo
The 2013 Barolo Riserva Vignolo surprises for the sheer darkness and saturation of its color. Upfront and without too much bother, the wine offers immediate richness and concentration with dark berry fruit, plum and dried cherry. There is a lot of intensi...
2015 Cavallotto - Barolo Riserva Vignolo
The 2015 Barolo Riserva Vignolo is a powerful, tightly wound wine that is going to need a few years to soften. Its gorgeous, translucent elegance is impossible to miss. Sweet red berry fruit, gravel, rose petal, mint, licorice and darker earthy tones all ...
2018 Cavallotto - Barolo Bricco Boschis
The Cavallotto 2018 Barolo Bricco Boschis (a certified organic wine) is a lovely expression with fruit from one of the most beautiful sites in Castiglione Falletto, measuring 7.3 hectares. The wine is streamlined and tight with forest berry, blackcurrant ...
2016 Cavallotto - Barolo Riserva San Giuseppe
A combination of an extraordinary vintage and a fantastic producer are behind this stunning wine. It opens with aromas recalling woodland berry, pipe tobacco, forest floor, balsamic notes of camphor and new leather. Still youthfully austere, the firmly st...
2016 Cavallotto - Barolo Riserva Vignolo
Enticing aromas recalling new leather, pressed rose, eucalyptus and sandalwood come to the forefront on this gorgeous, compelling wine. Full-bodied, structured and loaded with finesse, the precise palate is young but already delicious, delivering juicy Ma...
2018 Ceretto - Barolo Bricco Rocche
Made with certified organic fruit, the Ceretto 2018 Barolo Bricco Rocche shows thin texture and a mild personality with subtle aromas of dried rose, cassis and crushed stone. This vintage is more subdued for sure, but it's silky and accessible as well. Co...
2016 Cogno, Elvio - Barolo Ravera
Of the many great contributions made by the winemaking team at Elvio Cogno, perhaps the greatest is the importance they brought to the Ravera cru of Novello. Little-known before their efforts, this vineyard has risen in high regard in recent years and...
2015 Conterno Fantino - Barolo Vigna del Gris Ginestra
Impressive aromas of ripe and rich red cherries, red plums and darker berries that are swathed in fresh and spicy oak to good effect. Orange zest, too. The palate has a soaring build of sturdy tannins that carry abundant sweet and ripe cherry flavors long...
2015 Conterno Fantino - Barolo DOCG Sori Ginestra
The 2015 Barolo Sorì Ginestra shows why this site is so highly regarded.
2016 Conterno Fantino - Barolo DOCG Vigna del Gris
The Conterno Fantino 2016 Barolo Ginestra Vigna del Gris comes from a site in Monforte d'Alba that has a big component of loose sand in the soils. These well-draining conditions add to the softness and concentrated aromatic intensity of Nebbiolo. In fact,...
2016 Conterno Fantino Barolo Sori Ginestra
Of these new Baroli from Conterno Fantino, the 2016 Barolo Ginestra Vigna Sori Ginestra shows the most underlying power, linearity and determination. While the other wines are a little softer and richer, especially on the mid-palate, this wine is all musc...
2016 Conterno Fantino - Barolo Vigne Pressenda,Castelletto
The Conterno Fantino 2016 Barolo Castelletto Vigna Pressenda (with 6,500 bottles produced) draws its fruit from a 1.2-hectare site in Monforte d'Alba with silty soils mixed with sand and clay. It opens to bright cherry and dried raspberry that set the ton...