Barolo, San Rocco, 2010
Colourful, strong and voluptuous with plenty of bright fruit and dexterity to balance. Hearty, warming flavours of star anise, liquorice and cinnamon coupled with dark sweet fruit. The wine is dense yet lifting and gloriously velvety. A first class, clay-dominated, single vineyard from the Serralunga commune. The clay here is greyer than that of Margheria which yields darker more powerful wines. The vines average 60 years old and the wine is aged in 20% new wood for 24 months.
critic reviews
Dark cherry, plum, smoke, menthol, melted road tar and graphite meld together in the 2010 Barolo San Rocco. A big, explosive wine, the 2010 blossoms in the glass with layers of deep, expressive fruit. The San Rocco is usually a wine of volume and breadth, at it is again in 2010. The firm Serralunga tannins are present, but they are also beautifully balanced. I can't wait to see how the 2010 develops. Today, the San Rocco is young, young, young.