Bruno Besa | Light garnet to pale orange. Intense, herbal nose with small red fruits, minerals, and fresh mint. Medium bodied, with prominent acidity, yet well balanced by the sweet, small-red-fruit finish. Good Barolo but a touch too forward. | 87

Stephen Brook | Muted jelly-like red-fruits nose. Medium-bodied, with light tannins and acidity, this is up front and straightforward, with little evident complexity. It’s both lifted and chewy but doesn’t seem nuanced. This shows gentleness and charm, although there is some grip on the finish. But fundamentally soft-centered. | 87

Andrew Jefford | Limpid, clear deep red. Well into a secondary phase now, with a wide aromatic pool of dry-leaf and late-autumn aromas. Some sweet, candied fruits (withatouch of mixed ripeness) support and lift those secondary complexities. Highly articulate, detaining, and rewarding aromas, though perhaps not quite the same spectrum that a great classical vintage would have delivered; just a little bit leafy and humus-rich for this stage. On the palate, this comes across as one of the very ripest wines in the tasting: The acidity has dropped right away here, and you are relying on tannins and secondary complexities for balance. But there is nothing “overripe” gutty, or torpid about this wine either; it’s actually rather elegant and nuanced, with a freshening leafy note in there somewhere. | 92