Barolo, Monvigliero, 2019
An unbelievable Barolo. Profound, deep and expansive on first impression, a wine that makes you sit back for a moment and take stock. Saturated with tight red fruits, rock salt, anise and minerals, there is a firm spine to this that brings real verticality. In the end, it’s not so sprawling as it is just very intense and driven – the power and of breadth of the fruit is capped by the most enormously long peacock’s tail of a finish and dazzling, mineral-laced freshness. Surely one of the wines of the vintage. First bottled as a single vineyard in 1978, Fratelli Alessandria have an impressive 1.4ha split across 4 different plots averaging 40 years old. Fermented in stainless steel and aged for three years in 25hl cask.
critic reviews
The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero is a potent wine for a site usually known for finesse. Dark red cherry, iron, dried herbs, cedar and tobacco all drive through this painfully backward, somber Barolo. Here, too, readers will have to be patient. This is an especially forbidding Monvigliero.