Nicolas Belfrage: Medium deep, unusually youthful color. Mushrooms and truffles on nose, also small redberry fruit. Fresh, juicy and inviting on palate, with a good hit of Porty sweetness on finish, moderated by fresh acidity. A pleasure to drink now, but it will keep. 90

Bruno Besa: Deep garnet to pink, orange rim. Restrained, mineral nose with small red fruits, rosewater, hints of mint and tobacco leaf. Refined palate, with clean cranberry fruit. Long and clean, with a refined finish. Barolo that is drinking nicely now and should develop more complexity in the next 5–10 years. 90

Andrew Jefford: Deep, glowing red. Rather brusque aromas after the stealthy charm of many of its peers: fruit and cask, cross-hatched. Here, though, you can’t really complain: It’s generous and classic, full of 2011’s soft wealth, and with a long and satisfying finish. Plenty of rough and tumble in its approach, but nothing wrong with the delivery. 85