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Nebbiolo d’Alba DOC

Guide Annuario dei migliori vini italiani

Score 93/100

Publish Year 2021

Vintage 2017

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Il miglior vino:  Nebbiolo d’Alba DOC 2017 – 93/100

Sensazioni: rotondo e balsamico nel suo gusto-aroma di vanigliata composta di marasca e spezie, impressiona fin dal colore per la sua eccellente, superiore consistenza.

Polpa e potenza non fini a se stesse, non seguite come accade spesso nei rossi di eccessiva concentrazione dalla rilevazione di un frutto sovraevoluto e tannicamente possente, quanto seguite da una qualificante souplesse gustativa, vestite da fragranza e nettezza aromatica tali da conferire al vino la capacità di richiamare efficacemente il suo polpante, maturo e vanigliato gran frutto costitutivo.

Enologia impeccabilmente curata, viticoltura rigorosa per un sì denso e morbido, persistentissimo campione.

 

 

 

Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore

Guide Annuario dei migliori vini italiani

Score 91/100

Publish Year 2021

Vintage 2018

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Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore 2018 – 91/100

Di carnosa potenza, la visciola assai vivida e viola della Barbera d’Alba Doc Superiore 2018, morbida al palato e in aroma ben definita.

 

 

Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore

Guide Vini Buoni d’Italia

Score 4 stars

Publish Year 2021

Vintage 2018

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Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore 2018 has obtained the best score of 4 stars and was inserted into the section VINI DA NON PERDERE in Vini Buoni d’Italia 2021 Guide for its pleasantness, correspondence between wine and grape variety and equilibrium.

Barolo DOCG

Guide Jancis Robinson

Score 17.5/20

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2016

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Rating: 17.5/20

NHB. A little sullen on the nose. Chocolatey oak with a very faint note of coconut. Fragrant even in the mouth, but at the moment it’s all oak. Beautiful oak, but nevertheless, all oak.

Some dried cherries. Some cranberry raisins, some red-apple skin. Mushrooms dipped in truffle dipped in cherry liqueur.

The tannins are beautiful – not yet resolved but like a child with great bone structure, all set for a stunning future.

When this is ready, it will fit into its own skin with a silky fluidity that will stop hearts. Long.

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Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore

Guide Jancis Robinson

Score 16/20

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2018

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Rating: 16/20

Sour cherry and cherry stone, dark cocoa powder and earthiness – like the smell and taste of a mushroom just picked off tree roots, still mossy, not cleaned, fresh, otherworldly.

But then there is the sharp, clean splice of Barbera fruit that brings us back from otherworldliness to a wine that will be delicious with a simple roasttomato chilli pasta.

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Barbaresco DOCG Riserva

Guide Jancis Robinson

Score 17.5/20

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2007

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Rating: 17.5/20

Bosky perfume but with a touch of jewelled and (still) oh-so bright cranberry fruit. The fruit has a lustrous glow, like looking at a ruby through firelight. All the wood has melted into the fruit.  Little smudges of truffle and mace. It tastes like a rain soaked red maple leaf pressed into the winter-cold terracotta tile of a very old roof.
The flavours diffuse through your mouth, like walking through soft mist in autumnal woods with your tongue out. A lesson in ageing these wines… ?

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Barbaresco DOCG

Guide Jancis Robinson

Score 15.15/20

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2016

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Rating: 15.5/20

Slightly oxidised notes on the nose and palate. Lots of wood. Dry and astringent.

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Vino Bianco Sabbia

Guide Jancis Robinson

Score 16.5/20

Publish Year 2020

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Rating: 16.5/20

An orange wine made from Arneis in Piemonte. No vintage on the label, but I think this is a single-vintage wine. Slow fermentation on skins and pips without temperature control.

Long maceration. Aged in French barriques. Sabbia means sand – the colour of the wine and the vineyard soil.

Incredible glowing amber gold and smelling of ginger biscuits and dried peaches and marigold petals. Very, very, very spicy!

I make this absolutely gorgeous Yemeni spice blend called Hawaij and it tastes just like it. Bone dry, with the only fruit being shavings of dried Seville orange peel and a stencil of apricots.

Crisp-fried sage. Dusty. It smells and tastes like the dust of a tobacco auction floot. Tannins, subtle, supple, fine, as if a nanometre thickness of molten rubber had been painted on and peeled off.

Long, intruiging, challenging wine.

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Roero DOCG Riserva

Guide Decanter World Wine Awards

Score Rating: 90/100 – Silver Medal

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2016

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Rating: 90/100 – Silver Medal

Precise and pretty red cherry and spice nose. This is supple, reasonably fresh and quite concentrated with a firm tannic structure and fairly long finish.

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Barbera d’Alba DOC Superiore

Guide Decanter World Wine Awards

Score Rating: 89/100 – Bronz Medal

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2018

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Rating: 89/100 – Bronz Medal

Bright cherry and slightly herbal nose. On the palate the wine is intense and layered with ripe red fruits and firm tannin.
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Barbaresco DOCG

Guide Wein.plus

Score Excellent (90/100)

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2016

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Wein.plus rating: excellent (90WP)

Editor note:

Nutty, slightly foliar and slightly spicy fragrance of ripe red and a little black berries with tobacco, earthy and tarry notes. Ripe, quite juicy fruit, again with tobacco and spicy aromas, a hint of smoke on the palate, present, ripe and relatively mellow tannin, good substance and persistence, has power and warmth, certain depth, nutty tones, very good, quite firm, juicy and spicy finish.

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Barolo DOCG Riserva

Guide James Suckling

Score 91/100

Publish Year 2020

Vintage 2012

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James Suckling, considered one of the major international wine critics, rated our Barolo DOCG Riserva 2012 with a score of 91/100.

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