Nicolas Belfrage: Another opaque wine; I am surprised by the amount of color these wines have. Fruity-vegetal nose and palate, not immediately attractive but with the elements of a good wine in the future. Drink from 2016. 16.5

Bruno Besa: Black core to tawny, garnet rim. Youthful, small-red-fruits nose, with hints of fresh mint and cedarwood. Full body, with big tannins well supported by the clean, youthful fruit, if currently a little simplistic on the finish. 16.5

Andrew Jefford: Deep black-red and frankly opaque at its heart. Earthy, rich, dense, warm, and truffley: a big bear-hug of aroma, full of countryside generosity, and then sheened off with oak. On the palate, we have a very big, generous, unforbidding, beautifully ripe, resonant Barolo here. It’s the kind of wine to dive into and luxuriate in once you have surfaced again. Behind the fruit (both red and black), there are all sorts of planty, herbal complexities, almost a kind of vermouth-like dredge to it. Ample tannins, beautifully extracted. Nothing craggy; nothing forbidding; nothing difficult. Outstanding fruit—period. The only qualm is to do with that cast of oak, which shakes just a faintly alien sweetness over the whole affair. I’m prepared to believe that time will resolve all, but potential drinkers should be aware of this aspect of its personality. 17