Bruno Besa | Garnet to tawny. Open, spicy, tobacco, leather, orange-peel, and road-tar nose. Medium to full body, very tight and youthful palate, yet long and mineral. A classic Barolo that needs many years to show its best. | 94

Stephen Brook | Pretty raspberry and strawberry nose, delicate and perfumed, showing a welcome purity of fruit and subtlety. Light for Barolo, nimble, and not enough fruit to counter the tannins, which are assertive. Another example of a mismatch between aroma and palate. There’s a hollowness here and signs of excessive extraction. Dry, morose finish. | 83

Andrew Jefford | Deep glowing red. Lifted, sweet fruits here: cherry and crystallized redcurrants. Very graceful and serene aromas, and a sense of ample ripeness. Limpid, resonant, fine-grained, and long, with wonderful shape and architecture to it—growing in the mouth from an almost subdued entry, though middle-palate amplitude, to a tapered finish in which the significant tannins become apparent and unfreight their complexities. Masterful and stately, though with some of the cragginess of Castiglione, too. The sweetness of the vintage is evident here, and this is actually a wine with less prominent acids than many, but the fine tannins provide all the balance one might want. Superb. | 94