2011 Barolo
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Scents of dried cherry, tobacco, mint, cedar and autumn leaves are some of the signatures in Brovia's 2011 Barolo. Already quite forward, the 2011 is likely to offer its best drinking over the next few years, so I would not push my luck too far here. In some vintages, the Brovia Barolo can be a real overachiever, but the 2011 is a bit less complete than I would have liked. Don't get me wrong, the Barolo is pretty, but so often it is much more than that.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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Brovia's 2011 Barolo shows some vintage warmth with ripe fruit and dried cherries. This is a great effort despite the somewhat simplistic aromatic offerings. The wine's bouquet shows easy fruit and cherry aromas offset by classic tones of licorice and light spice. This vintage reveals a dark, resiny personality with tar and asphalt characteristics that are present in many of the wines produced in 2011.
The 2011 Barolo is sumptuous and expressive, with all of the immediacy that is so typical of the year. Dark red cherry, plums, hard candy, spice and tobacco are all woven into a layered finish graced with soft contours and fabulous overall balance for a straight Barolo. As Brovia fans know, the straight Barolo is 70% young-vine fruit from Brea (above 20 years of age), plus the wine that is left over when the single-vineyard Barolos go into cask.