Bruno Besa: Garnet to ruby pink. Clean nose, both mineral and ripe, with red apples and fruit salad, fresh herbs, violets, and roses. Medium-bodied, with sweet, layered red fruit and a long, herb and blood-orange finish. 93

Andrew Jefford: Dark black-red, just off opaque: one of the deepest colors in the tasting thus far. Rich plummy fruits, with a little raisiny sweetness. Inching out toward the exotic but attractive for all that. Very lush, decked and full. Powerful fruit concentration and length here; ample ripeness. Quite a showy and flamboyant wine and thus perhaps not a classicist’s choice, but a wine of unusual presence and density. Sweet-finishing, though not in any way cloying. 90

Michael Palij: This wine is dominated by jammy red-fruit aromas, with red currant, plum, cherry, strawberry, and raspberry. The palate is savory, with integrated oak providing spicy complexity and rounding out the fruit. The finish develops with notes of dried herbs, pepper, and dog rose. Perfect balance and length, without being too showy—just what Barolo should be in a vintage such as 2017. 96