Nicolas Belfrage: Deepest color of tasting—opaque. Plum, vanilla, woodsmoke, and blackcurrant on the nose. Laudable for its abundance of fruit, fresh acidity, and firm tannin base, but not very typical of Barolo—perhaps more of La Morra. Impressive as a wine but not very typed. 89

Bruno Besa: Black core to thin garnet rim. Mature, blackfruit nose with violets. A touch overripe and jammy. Broad, full-bodied palate and a clean but not very complex finish. 87

Andrew Jefford: Saturated dense black—very dark for this tasting. A voluminous and rather composty nose, with some lack of aromatic refinement, but gosh, it comes out to meet you! As the nose suggested, this is a very forceful, busy, and extrovert wine, but with some lack of fashioning craft and subtlety. Big, drenching tannins. Adequate ripeness. Unignorable, savory, thundering—and hence good in its own way, and certainly showy. But if you are looking for Burgundian grace and subtlety, look elsewhere. 86