Nicolas Belfrage: Fairly deep but authentic color, with hints of turn. Fruit-driven aromas (plum, cranberry) on the nose. Mouth-filling and sumptuous, with plenty of tannic grip and signs that it will mature well. A bit tough now, though, with a tannic finish that suggests it needs plenty of time. Drink from 2019. 89

Bruno Besa: Deep garnet to tawny rim. Open, smoky, mature nose of dried fruits, cedarwood, and refined, complex minerality. Elegant, restrained palate with tobacco-leaf, dried herbs, and a long black-fruit finish. Classy Barolo with long aging potential. 92

Andrew Jefford: Dark, dense black-red. Dutch pipe-tobacco and polished mahogany: very secondary aromas, without any evident fresh fruit lift, but balanced and attractive nonetheless. After time in the glass, there is some menthol and pine apparent. Plenty of wood. Close-textured, dense, concentrated, and ambitious wine, with more fruit apparent on the palate than made itself known on the nose. Ample tannins, though with the diagnostic softness of texture of the vintage. Good raw materials, sagely picked to retain vivacity, and given ample wood cosseting. Lacks a little charm by comparison with some, and the wood is emphatic, but this is splendid wine nonetheless. 87