2019 Barolo Arborina
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With fruit from one of the most beautiful spots in La Morra that enjoys wide panoramic views of the surrounding vineyards, this is another classic Nebbiolo from a great vintage. The Mauro Veglio 2019 Barolo Arborina opens to wild cherry, licorice and blue flower. The house style prizes just a tad more richness and concentration, although the quality of fruit remains beautifully polished throughout. Arborina ages in barrique for 24 months with 25% new oak and 75% neutral wood. Production is 6,500 bottles.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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Lifted with red fruits, the 2019 Barolo Arborina is perfumed with wild raspberry, roses, and sweet herbs. This svelte and medium-bodied red offers a silky mineral texture, with fine tannins and fresh acidity, revealing notes of fresh orange, peach, and sandy earth. I love where this is now, but it will be great drinking over the coming 10-15 years.
The 2019 Barolo Arborina is super-classy and refined, adjectives that don't come to mind often in Arborina, where the tannins are often incisive. Freshly cut flowers, sweet red berry fruit, orange zest, mint and chalk give the Arborina its bright, high-toned profile. This mid-weight, gracious Barolo is all class.
25 days on the skins and aged for two years in barrique, 25% new. Just mid ruby. Cool yet concentrated on the nose and a little closed with just a touch of oak. Extraordinary balance with fine, clayey tannins and fresh, juicy fruit with plenty of acidity. But still very elegant and fine, almost a little slim. Not ready yet. (WS)