Bruno Besa | Deep garnet to pink. Mature, youthful, layered black- and red-fruits nose, with black cherries, blackberries, hints of tar and leather and forest- floor undertones. Medium to full body, with a mature black-fruit palate. Long and mature on the finish. A generous wine that needs more time. | 93

Stephen Brook | The nose is juicy and vibrant, with raspberry and sour-cherry fruit that leaps from the glass. It’s velvety on the palate, with admirable concentration and grip, without any toughness or hardness. It has unusual power for Barbaresco, but it seems in balance, with assertive fruit, ripe tannins, and impressive persistence. | 94

Andrew Jefford | Clear mid-garnet red. Sweet, relatively simple scents of cherry compote and the Monday wash. Slightly odd on the palate, with some strange, quasi-medicinal aromatic notes rather dominating the plummy fruits. It’s a deep, well-structured wine for all that. 2018–22. | 84