Barolo, Villero
    Fratelli Brovia

    Barolo, Villero, 2021

    97/100
    Robert Parker Wine Advocate
    95/100
    Vinous
    Available Vintages
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    1. 2021

      6x75cl

      EP

      £495.00

    2. 2021

      3x1.5L

      EP

      £540.00

    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    Villero offers a beautiful, knock-out nose of fresh flowers and sweet red fruits. It is layered and lacy and floating. Gentle initially but it grows in stature the more you sit with it. Powerful on the palate, with vigour and breadth and warmer feeling notes of anise, camphor and spice. Villero has a higher density of tannin than the more vertical, lively Rocche. Power matched with finesse and seriously long. Brovia’s vine age here is 62 years old, planted on a good proportion of hard clay under sand. Southwest facing at 300m, Villero has less air circulation and receives the warmer afternoon sun. Aged in large used oak casks for two years.

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    Critic Reviews

    97/100
    Monica Larner,
    Robert Parker Wine Advocate
    The Brovia 2021 Barolo Villero has that powdery or chalky element that I love so much from this site. It's like crushed chalkboard, and it frames other more fragrant aromas of sambuca, aniseed, blueberry and lilac. This wine is beautifully complex, and it keeps going in the glass, unveiling new layers all the time. The same thing can be said of the long mouthfeel. Villero is 1.2 hectares at 230 to 350 meters above sea level with marl soils (a mix of silt and clay). The wine matures in 40-hectoliter French and Slavonian oak casks, and 5,000 bottles were created.
    drinking window 2027 - 2048
    date of review 06/2025
    95/100
    Antonio Galloni,
    Vinous
    The 2021 Barolo Villero is a tight, reticent wine, as Barolos from this site often are. Spice box, dried flowers, mint and plum begin to emerge with a bit of time in the glass. This firm, classically austere Barolo feels rather shut down following its bottling. The Villero is always the hardest wine at Brovia to taste young. Even so, it oozes classicism. All readers need is a measure of patience.
    drinking window 2028 - 2041
    date of review 01/2025

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    Specifications

    Country:
    Italy
    Region:
    Piedmont
    Appellation:
    Barolo
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Nebbiolo
    abv:
    14.5%

    allergen information

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