Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

vintage 2016 | beautiful develop bouquet, rich, vanilla, mango, hay. The taste seems a clap in the face, strict acidity, reminds of a chardonnay from Jura. — a month ago

Chris MacLean

9.1

Excellent in ten years — 4 months ago

with Jason and Eli

Tom Casagrande

9.0

Fresh, tingly nose. Lots of bright fruit and a subtle almond note on the palate and a nice bitterish note on the finish — 5 months ago

Paul Woolls

9.3

What a delightful surprise. Excellent food wine! — 10 months ago

Conrad Green

9.3

Soft brown in color. Toasted notes with dried fruit, soft plum, tar and some high toned acidity. A slightly austere palate but a haunting fragrant quality. Very pretty. You need to lean in a bit to see the beauty — 2 years ago

with Jonathan, Paul and 1 other

Aaron Tan

9.0

Aced this blind, though I felt the palate weight does lean more towards a Langhe Nebbiolo by convention.
Like the blinded Margaux on the table, the nose led with Morello cherries, but without new oak and more layers such as aromas of dried roses, leather, star anise, and earth. The trademark Nebbiolo tannins and acidity on the palate was what scored the clincher for me. Lighter than expected for the level of tannins, but I felt it was still balanced especially with the mouth-filling mid-palate fruit (mixed berries here). Finishes with spice and fresh acidity. It’s a dangerous drink given how elegant it is at 14.5% abv. Best red of the night!

NB: The 2017 Blue Label Ascheri Barolo was made with a blend of fruits from La Morra, Verduno, and Serralunga. Fermentation was a 50% mix of 15-day batch and 25-day batch with submerged cap. Aging was for 24 months in large Slavonian oak barrels (70% new oak and 30% used) and for 12 months in stainless steel before bottling. It’s interesting to note how little wood character was imparted into the wine using large format barrels, despite the high percentage of new oak. I would imagine that one of the roles of this cuvée at Ascheri is just to season the new barrels for use in the better cuvées. — 4 years ago

KA

9.3

Roscioli NY — a month ago

Jose Lorenzo

8.9

At Lucia. — 3 months ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.1

Bright Ruby color with aromas of red berry fruits, spice and floral notes. On the palate flavors of cherry and strawberry with spice, licorice and floral notes. Fine chewy tannins, medium+ finish ending with fruit, floral spice and slight earthy character. — 5 months ago

Katya

9.3

Ароматное, на вкус не очень сложное, но Сереже понравилось. Пардон, питкое. — 7 months ago

Conrad Green

9.3

A bright noise of light dried rises and soft cherry with an ouch of acidity. Lovely and fresh still. Lively and complex. Very good. — 2 years ago

with Paul, Ara and 1 other

Jose Lorenzo

9.5

Check previous notes — 3 years ago

Joe Razza

9.2

Lovely wine paired with rigatoni alla vodka and stuffed artichokes. Cherries and plum and not overly dry. Look forward to drinking this again. — 6 years ago

KA

9.3

Golden Steer NY — a month ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

2022 vintage. Medium heavy bod. Super-drinkable. Too drinkable. Needs some brakes but don’t foresee a brake job any time soon. — 3 months ago

Russ Kujan

9.0

2020 vintage. Apparently, Brezza Giacomo e Figli is a certified organic producer in Barolo, known for crafting high-quality Barbera d'Alba Superiore. This was a well-structured Barbera I found best decanted for 30 minutes. Black fruit, herbs and white pepper on the nose. Medium body with notes of blackberry, tart cherry. and dried herbs and a play between moderate acidity and tannin with a exceptional medium length finish. This was perfect with pasta puttanesca and tuna and white bean salad. — 5 months ago

UWS

9.0

20241111 Rest. Osteria Vicoletto, Alba with Wakano
2017
Elegant wine from La Morra with taste of raspberries, dried cherries, black tea.
Ripe but not the greatest Barolo I had.
€71.00 — 2 years ago

Jay Kline

9.4

This was served to me single-blind, after the 2016 Cascina Fontana Barolo del Comune di Castiglione Falletto. I knew it was Barolo, but from where? It seemed like a broader shouldered wine that I might associate from the Comune di Barolo, but I wasn’t certain. The wine pours a deep, garnet color with a near opaque core. Medium viscosity, with no staining of the tears. On the nose, developing and much darker fruited than the Cascina Fontana with notes of dark cherry and some blackberry notes too. There was some tobacco, tar, red roses, minerals and spices. On the palate, the wine is dry with high tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long and delicious. Again, there is real quality here and a very lovely texture. And there it is: Borgogno’s Riserva Cannubi, 2011! I am not surprised this is Cannubi, with there being no shortage of quality fruit and all. This was really fun to enjoy. Drink now with some patience or through 2041. — 2 years ago

Chris Hiromura

8.9

Light, fruit foward, nice acid with very light tanin finish. — 4 years ago

Ed Tostanoski

9.0

Light and floral, reminded me of something from La Morra — 6 years ago