Fratelli Alessandria

Barolo, Gramolere, 2017

Name: Barolo, Gramolere
Brand: Fratelli Alessandria
Price: 438.32 GBP

95/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

The Wine Independent

94/100

Vinous

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2017
75cl
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£64.06
2017
6x75cl
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£384.32
2017
3x1.5L
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£438.32

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

More voluptuous and less chiselled than the Monvigliero, still with requisite structure but so different in shape. Well-covered, fulsome, mouth-coating bramble fruit with notes of dried orange peel, asian spices and a hint of vanilla. Solid, deep and powerful, this will need some time to come round. From Vittore’s mother side of the family, this is a vineyard that came from the Manzone estate in Monforte in 2001. The vines are 55 years old. Higher than Verduno, at over 400 metres above sea level and with browner/ red soils this yields completely different wines. After a month of gentle maceration, the wine is then aged for 3 years in large wooden vats.

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We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Susan Hulme,

The Wine Independent

The 2017 Fratelli Alessandria Barolo Gramolere has a lively nose - it is spicy, vibrant and nuanced. Lively too on the palate, it is very forceful with, fine-textured, chalky tannins. Energetic and characterful. It needs more time, wait 3 years, drink for 20.

drinking window 2025 - 2042

date of review 07/2022

95/100

Monica Larner,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

With some 7,000 bottles released, the Fratelli Alessandria 2017 Barolo Gramolere gives us a taste of fruit from Monforte d'Alba, as opposed to Verduno, where this winery is based. The Nebbiolo from this further-flung village shows deep power and equal grace, and you feel the contrast in this warm-vintage wine. This Barolo sits firmly on the palate with dark shades of cherry, blackcurrant and wild plum. These fruit tones cede to iron ore, rusty nail and dark licorice. This wine shows power and almost sanguine or earthy intensity. The wine will hit the market in September 2021.

drinking window 2024 - 2040

date of review 06/2021

94/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2017 Barolo Gramolere is a powerful, tightly wound wine full of Monforte tension. Readers will have to be patient. Dark-fleshed fruit, spice, menthol, licorice and sage add layers of aromatic intrigue to this firm, hulky Barolo. The 2017 takes all the Gramolere signatures and turns up the volume.

drinking window 2025 - 2042

date of review 02/2021

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.