Bright spicy, mulberry, cherry fruit nose, pretty and fragrant. Palate is crisp and vibrant, juicy blackberry, damson, cherry fruit, lovely flesh, fruit extract, with spice on the lovely finish.

A big, rich wine, 2015 Barbaresco Serraboella is shaping up to be a real beauty. A host of dark cherry, plum, mocha, dark spice and leather overtones race from the glass in a sumptuous, ample Bar...(read more)

100% Barbera from the Campass single vineyard in the Serraboella cru with a southeastern exposure at 350m above sea level. Clay soils. 30 year old vines. Fermentation and maceration: 8-12 days in...(read more)

The 2012 Barbaresco Vie Erte is soft, succulent and quite enjoyable today. Sweet red cherry, cranberry, orange peel and white pepper give the Vie Erte its distinctive, high-toned personality, an...(read more)

Following the Via Erte this is a huge step up in intensity and concentration. Wow. From 35-55 year old vines grown on chalk and limestone there is real class here. Deep dense fruit, but beautiful...(read more)

More herbal nose with liquorice, cherries, mint and floral touches. Palate delivers with nice rich grip of tannins and a sweet rich core of plums and blackberry, mineral and pure with great extra...(read more)

Plush and seamless but closed down presently; sure to develop slowly but gorgeously. Very deep wine aged roughly two thirds in cask and one third in barriques.

The 2014 Barbaresco Serraboella has quite a bit more volume and greater breadth than the Vie Erte, as it so often does, along with quite a bit of tannic heft. Here, too, readers will have to be p...(read more)