2000 Barbaresco Vigneto Brich Ronchi
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The 2000 Barbaresco Brich Ronchi is even more impressive than it’s sibling, spicier and riper in aroma, more perceptibly oaky in its clove and vanilla fragrance, and very rich on the palate. It is a wine packed and chewy, potent and warm with fine varietal notes of licorice, asphalt, wild cherries, and cinnamon. Very long and built to last, it will drink will from 2006 to 2020. A Marc de Grazia Selection, various American importers, including Michael Skurnik, Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300, Vin Divino, Chicago, IL; tel. (773) 334-6700, and Estate Wines, Ltd., San Rafael, CA; tel. (415) 492-9411
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Daniel Thomases, Wine Advocate
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(80% new barriques) Saturated ruby-red. Black raspberry, cherry, currant, flowers and vanillin oak on the sappy nose. Lush, fat and deep; rather round and forward for this bottling. Finishes with big, sweet tannins and mouthcoating fruit of outstanding persistence. Very impressive, but not a wine I'd bury in the cellar. These two 2001 Barbarescos have the buffering extract to support their near-15% alcohol without coming off as topheavy.