Nicolas Belfrage: Medium-deep with turn. Attractive truffle and red-fruit aromas. Lightweight but typical fruit on the palate, the tannins a touch grippy and acid, a touch sharp, but perfumes predominate in a wine more for drinking than for putting on a pedestal. Drink now and for several years. 86

Bruno Besa: Garnet to tawny rim. A touch closed, yet a complex cedarwood nose, with mature black fruit and hints of tobacco, mint, and violets. Medium to full body, balanced tannins, and sweet, restrained, prune-juice-like fruit. Complex, classic Nebbiolo to enjoy over the next 5–10 years. 90

Andrew Jefford: Deep red-black; translucent. Very complex and satisfying aromas: mellow, lush, rich, tobacco, undergrowth—all the things one loves about Piemonte are here. Gorgeous ripeness, too. Soft, ripe, trembling, and yielding: lovely, rich, mellow La Morra, sundering to the tongue but then picking itself up and ending almost severe, almost authoritarian, as the tannins wake. This is a magnificent 2011, absolutely spot-on and downthe- line with the vintage, rewarding and open, yet finishing structured and firm and disciplined. Bravo to its creator. 96