SH | Good colour intensity faded ruby. The nose is rather flat and subdued with some notes of background spice, cream, smoke, polish, black cherry. There is a little raw and under-ripe quality to the fruit with some crunchy green notes and the tannins feel quite drying.Drink Dates: 2025 - 2029. 84
AJ | Clear, deep garnet-red; translucent at the core. Fine fresh fruit, here, with a purity and classiness not always evident elsewhere. The delivery is simple and straightforward: no sign of any layering yet, but that quality of fruit bodes well for the future. The palate delivers on the promise: aquiline, clean, impeccably defined fruit all the way through the palate, fresh and accessible. There isn't either complexity or concentration, but this is a lovely mouthful of Barolo for the short to medium term.Drink Dates: 2025 - 2033. 89
MP | Pronounced, complex and highly detailed nose with a panoply of aromatic silos including red currant, strawberry, cranberry, black plum, Morello cherry, ginger, red apple, cedar, mushroom and tobacco. The palate has zingy acidity and warming alcohol but these only serve to showcase the red and black fruit joined by incense, clove, marmite and wild rose. Taken together the structure and fruit drive an exceptional finish with almost a minute of aftertaste. This is a lithe and haunting example of the vintage.Drink Dates: 2028 - 2038. 97