Nicolas Belfrage: Medium deep with a garnet rim. Definite rose aromas. Soft and fragrant in the mouth, a nice balance of aromatic (flowery) and tasty (concentration and balance) in the mouth. Quite classic, restrained, not overweight. Drink from 2017. 17.5

Bruno Besa: Deep garnet to tawny. An intense herbal nose, with small red fruits, almonds, rosewater, and hint of cedarwood. Salty, clean, and mature palate, with a long, small-red-fruit finish. A classic Barolo from a great vintage. 18

Andrew Jefford: Deep garnet red. Rich, ripe, truffley, exotic fruit, with some floral perfumes, too: supremely attractive. Extraordinary aromatic intricacy here. Soft, earthy, relatively low-acid profile for Barolo, but with magnificent tannic grip. Perhaps there is a slight lack of central fruit presence in this wine; it is just pitched toward the ripe end of the spectrum. But it is so round, and simmering, and profound, and meditative in its style, and without any sense whatsoever of pruniness or raisinyness that I find it very hard to resist. It’s a lush, generous, unctuous 2010 but a wine of great extractive profundity nonetheless, and I’d love to be able to open a bottle from time to time over the next decade. 17.5