Barolo, 2020

Name: Barolo
Brand: Elio Altare
Price: 353.12 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2000 2013 2015 2018 2020 2021

justerini & brooks tasting note

Super stylish, fragrant and detailed with vivifying red fruits and salts. Finely carved with touches of iodine and citrus. The blend this year includes 15% Cerretta which may account for the enhanced minerality and sapidity. Accompanying is Sarmassa (a plot on the border with Le Liste, in the Barolo commune), Pernano in Castiglione Falletto and Bricco Ambrogio in Roddi. Aged for two years in neutral barrique.

critic reviews

93/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Showing bright fruit freshness and energy, the Elio Altare 2020 Barolo is packed with cherry, wild currant, dried apricot and orange peel. The wine offers volume and texture, more so than your standard Barolo, with soft layers and pretty accessibility. It ages in used barrique for 24 months. There is a hint of butter biscuit too. The tannins are almost resolved, and you don't need to wait long to open one of the 13,000 bottles made.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2038

date of review 04/2024

92/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2020 Barolo is a classy, elegant wine, benefitting from the addition of the best lots of Cerretta, which was not bottled in 2020. Muscular, incisive tannins wrap around a core of dark red fruit, cedar, mint, tobacco and spice. Rich and explosive, yet also medium in body, the 2020 is terrific. Vineyard sites are Sarmassa, Pernanno, Bricco Ambrogio and Cerretta. The Altare straight Barolo remains one of the unheralded stars in Piedmont, even after all these years.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2040

date of review 01/2024