2020 Barolo Bussia
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Monforte d’Alba. Just mid ruby. Saline and iodine notes over exotically spiced, lifted cherry fruit. Still tight and compact on the palate with brooding cherry aromas with a pinch of oak and a layer of chewy tannins that need more time to settle. (WS)
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The Parusso 2020 Barolo Bussia has an unexpected combination of rose water, honey cake or Middle Eastern dessert, candy closed with wax, paraffin, syrupy dark fruit and bramble. Bussia in the creative hands of vintner Marco Parusso offers a wide-ranging kaleidoscope of offbeat Nebbiolo aromas, many of which reflect warm-vintage conditions and concentrated fruit flavors, especially in 2020. Production is 7,300 bottles.
The 2020 Barolo Bussia marries elegance and power. Dark, spiced and super-expressive, the Bussia is striking in its beauty. Rose petal, mint, orange peel, lavender and blue fruits open first, followed by a whole range of balsamic inflections that develop in the glass.