2020 Barolo DOCG
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The 2020 Barolo, which I tasted last year as well, is a medium red/orange color, and it’s developed wonderfully with another year in bottle. It offers notes of preserved cranberry, toasted spice, fresh leather, bergamot, and cardamom. The palate is fantastic, with a more linear feel, refined tannins, an elegant and rounded mid-palate, and a more mineral-inflected finish. It’s long on the palate and is starting to show the vintage's potential. Drink 2025-2045.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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Monforte d’Alba. Just mid ruby with orange tinges. Minerally iodine hints over sweet raspberry fruit. Succulent raspberry with wired acidity and finely ground tannins. A little lithe for Monforte perhaps, but super-stylish. (WS)
The 2020 Barolo is a blend of fruit from sources in Castiglione Falletto, Barolo, Serralunga and Monforte. It’s a gorgeous, complex wine redolent of cedar, pipe tobacco, dried herbs, menthol and earthy undertones. The 2020 is deep, expressive and quite open, especially in its aromatics. It's a classy, elegant Barolo through and through. "I am going to be sixty next year. I am not making wines that need to be cellared for a long time before being ready," proprietor Alan Manley told me.