2011 Barolo Ravera
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Tasting notes
Novello. Healthy mid ruby with orange tinges. Closed nose with a hint of stalky cherry. Ripe and juicy fruit on the palate underpinned by lots of powdery tannins. (WS)
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James Suckling
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2011 Barolo Ravera opens to a pretty garnet color and dark ruby luminosity. The wine delivers tight concentration and a fine texture that adheres closely to the palate. Blackberry, cassis, spice, leather and tobacco emerge from the glass. Barolo Ravera also offers an earthy tone of white truffle or porcino mushroom. Soft oak density and thick fruit extract give the wine beautiful, full-bodied appeal. Give it ten more years of cellar aging to lose the baby fat.
The 2011 Barolo Ravera is once again the most vibrant and nuanced of the Vietti Barolos. Freshly cut flowers, crushed rocks, mint and bright red stone fruits are all shaped by a very classic sense of mineral-inflected drive that is such a Ravera signature. The 2011 is a more than worthy follow up to the epic 2010. It's great to see this high-altitude district in Novello finally getting its due.
Sweet rose petals, mint and racy red fruit are some of the signatures in the 2011 Barolo Ravera. Lifted, aromatic and exquisitely nuanced, the Ravera is shaping up to be magnificent. The Ravera brings together nuanced aromatics, chiseled fruit and pulsating energy. What a gorgeous wine this is.