SH | complex, heady nose with a touch of waxy polish, lavender, sweet spice notes but a little more rustic on the palate. The tannins are chunky and robust, the acidity offers welcome refreshment but unfortunately there is a lack of ripe fruit to balance these elements.Drink Dates: 2025 - 2030. 87
AJ | Deep garnet but translucent and bright. Sweet fruits, well-rounded and balanced; softly harmonious and enticing. No great focus of aroma but what is there draws the drinker into the glass. Lively, elegant and shapely, with perhaps the best quality of 2020's fruit: affable, likeable, moreish. Lovely soft tannins here, and the acidity too is soft, though both support well. Supremely drinkable. A totally uncomplicated glassful of delicious Barolo.Drink Dates: 2025 - 2035. 90
MP | Very ripe dark fruit aromas tinged with coffee and tar. The nose shows tobacco, liquorice, raspberry jam, black cherry, tar and oak notes of cedar and sandalwood. The palate is generously fruity with red and black fruit allied to coffee, damp earth, dark chocolate and vanilla. It lacks finesse and elegance and the baked, cooked fruit dominate the finish.Drink Dates: 2026 - 2031. 92