2016 Barolo Cerretta
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The 2016 Barolo Cerretta is another impressive wine from Davide Rosso. Ample and resonant in the glass, with terrific freshness, the Cerretta captures all the best the vintage has to offer. Sweet red berry fruit, blood orange, cinnamon, wild flowers and mint emerge from the glass, but only with some reluctance. Time really brings out the wine's textural depth nicely. I would give the 2016 a few years in bottle.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The Giovanni Rosso 2016 Barolo Cerretta is a tight, focused and high-energy expression of Nebbiolo. Red and purple fruit aromas of cassis, dried cranberry and cherry provide pretty highlights, but ample space is given to those equally pretty aromas of licorice, campfire ash and candied orange peel that so deftly play supporting roles. To the palate, this is a glossy, polished wine with enough tannic kick to carry it forward for another 10 or 20 years of cellar aging.
Serralunga d’Alba. East-facing vineyard. Finely perfumed with minerally, saline notes and iron. Mouth-filling raspberry and cherry fruit with the perfect dose of integrated acidity. Very suave but with a firm tannic structure underpinning the concentrated fruit. (WS)