Nicolas Belfrage: Attractive mid-depth color with beginnings of turn. Classic rose-petal-and-tar nose. Beautifully expressive yet balanced, powerful yet restrained palate, with firm acid, ripe velvety tannin, and concentrated fruit-flower flavor. Drink from 2018 for many years. 96

Bruno Besa: Garnet to tawny. Closed yet complex, dark nose with smoke and black fruits. Restrained with road tar and dried roses. Full body yet elegant and fragrant, with big yet refined tannins. It certainly needs a few years to show its best, but it should age for many years to come. 92

Andrew Jefford: The deepest Verduno on the color code. Warm, zesty plummy fruit with plenty of aerial lift behind the fruit-skin pulse. Smooth, soft, more secondary than the aromas led me to think, and less masterful, too. Yes, we are in the subtly inflected place between balletic Barbaresco and leonine Barolo. Another outstanding wine: plenty of fruit, but it’s fruited grace; there are secondary delights to discover sewn up in those graceful, dancing tannins. Barolo lovers, ignore this village to your cost! 92