Barolo, Vigneto Rocche, 2005
From two parcels within Rocche aged 30 and 50 years old. Wherever ‘Rocche’ appears as, or part of, a vineyard name, it implies the vineyard soils have a relatively high sand content, giving floral, silky-textured wines. This is certainly the case with Renato’s Rocche; however, the 2005 surprisingly shows more strength and grunt even than the 2004. Velvety, less chewy than Arborina, this is very fine and precise but hugely powerful nonetheless; red berry, autumn fruit, briar and spice flavours, complex and layered, shades of rock mineral and mocha, a little closed but totally complete and highly sophisticated.
critic reviews
Good deep red. Very ripe aromas of spices and nutty oak. Sweet, fat and inviting; large-scaled for this wine, with palate-saturating breadth and superb depth of flavor. The wine's big but ripe tannins call for at least four or five years of cellaring.