2020 Barolo Ginestra
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Lustrous ruby with orange tinges. A peppery, minerally and savoury nose with brooding fruit. Takes its time to open up and becomes slowly more aromatic with raspberry fruit and hints of fresh garden herbs. Juicy, fresh red fruit with fine gravelly tannins that become a little drying on the finish. Elegant palate weight. (WS)
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
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The 2020 Barolo Ginestra has a more high-toned and red-fruited profile compared to the 2021s and boasts notes of grenadine, candied flowers, cocoa, and fresh spices. The palate has a more medium-bodied feel but remains ripe with refined tannins and has a good deal of length and even acidity. It offers a more immediate feel now, though I imagine it will have quite a long life ahead as well. Drink 2025-2045.
Monforte d’Alba. Just mid ruby. Complex nose of perfumed red fruit with savoury, minerally notes. Pure raspberry fruit slowly unfurling on the palate and filled out with coating, long tannins. Long and layered and can be approached now. (WS)
The 2020 Barolo Ginestra is another terrific wine from Diego Conterno. Rich, ample and bombastic, the 2020 saturates the palate with a heady mix of blackberry, chocolate, spice, leather, licorice and incense. There’s a lot of fruit and overall intensity, yet the typically potent Ginestra tannins are nicely tamed. I would give this a few years in bottle to shed some of its baby fat. This is a seriously impressive wine.