Nicolas Belfrage: Quite deep, verging on opaque. Woodsmoke and vanilla. Rich but austere palate, with muscular tannins and lively acidity. This wine is trying very hard to be great and certainly it has amazing concentration and the structure to carry it through many years, but will it develop charm? It is certainly tight-knit and long. Drink from 2019, but should last a lot longer. 92

Bruno Besa: Deep garnet to tawny. Closed nose of pine resin and small red fruits. Clean and fairly complex. Full body, with big tannins and mature fruit. Slightly simple on the finish. 88

Andrew Jefford: Deep black-red. Warm, round, very orchestral and harmonious. Perhaps a little difficult to pick out the individual notes, but the general sense of ripeness and warmth is very gratifying. Better than the rather uneventful nose suggested: This is a dense and powerful wine with lots of incipient complexity sewn up in it. It’s very secondary, very ripe, very dense, very searching, very thick-textured, very satisfying— a wine I would love to have in my cellar. Splendidly constituted, thick, powerful, long; not overinfluenced by any kind of cellar work, and most definitely a wine where the vineyard is on the front foot. The question really is whether this has been harvested a little bit too late for full aromatic refinement. My answer is “Perhaps,” but, gosh, this is stupendously rich and gratifying Barolo nonetheless. If it had better aromatic detail, it might well sweep the board. 94