2010 Barolo Villero
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Tasting notes
Scents of woodland berries, violets, dried rose petals, baking spices and Mediterranean herbs emerge from this wine. Crushed Morello cherry, graphite, red raspberry and white pepper all come seamlessly together on the palate alongside invigorating energy and intensity. It shows fantastic aging potential.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
More reviews and scores
Castiglione Falletto. Developed-looking mid ruby with broad orange rim. Very closed with notes of iron and orange peel. Ripe fruit that is still a little monolithic while the acidity seems almost absorbed. A finely grainy textured wine with a very slow, long, fragrant finish.
(includes 20% rose, these are Fenocchio's oldest vines but his Villero bottling is not typically an outsized wine): Good full medium red. Aromas of candied raspberry, violet and flinty minerality. Juicy and tightly wound but with insidious sweetness to its youthful red fruit flavors. Wonderfully fine-grained, perfumed wine with firm but harmonious tannic spine and excellent energy.