2016 Vietti Barolo Brunate
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 24th Jul 2020
Source July 2020 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
Rating 97 points
Release Price $175
Drink Date 2024 - 2050 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Luca Currado farms in the Brunate cru on the La Morra side of the vineyard (as opposed to the Barolo side), and this wine includes fruit from new parcels. The differences are subtle to be sure, but I always associate La Morra with an extreme silkiness and softness. I find those qualities apply to this wine. The Vietti 2016 Barolo Brunate shows blue flowers, forest fruit, wild cherry and truffle-infused earth. It reveals a lean but open-knit quality that you sense in the mouth. That softness, or textural silkiness, continues for many long minutes with hints of mint, licorice and camphor ash doled out carefully along the way. The tannins are polished and long. This is an extremely elegant Brunate.
2013 Vietti • Barolo Ravera
Reviewed by Monica Larner
Issue Date 1st Sep 2017
Source 232, The Wine Advocate
Rating 98p
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2020 - 2045 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
This is a stunning wine. The 2013 Barolo Ravera is a jaw-dropping creation that boasts soaring intensity with absolute clarity and purity of its aromatic impact. The bouquet is layered and rich with dark fruit, soft spice and cured tobacco. The integration of its aromas is seamless, polished and silky. But the wine is also compact and tightly wound around itself, meaning it still needs time to peel back like the opening petals of a rose bud. Give it at least five more years of cellar aging. The wine imparts a perfect Nebbiolo mouthfeel, showing intensity and firmness with an incredibly long and smoky finish.