Albino Rocca Barbaresco Ovello Vigna Loreto 2014

The 2014 Barbaresco Ovello Vigna Loreto is powerful and imposing out of the glass, with serious mid-palate intensity, depth and volume to match. A rush of sweet red cherry, plum, menthol, rose petal and blood orange give the 2014 its somewhat exotic personality. Readers should be prepared to give the 2014 at least a few years to shed some formidable tannin. Today, it is decidedly austere.

Score: 93
Tasting date: October 2017
Drinking window: 2019 - 2026

Vinous -- Antonio Galloni

Tasted blind. Barbaresco. Mid ruby with orange tinges. Cherry and strawberry fruit that seems a little pushed for ripeness. Hint of liquorice with bittersweet tannins on the finish and lifted strawberry fruit (Walter Speller).

Jancis Robinson score: 16
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