2019 Barolo San Giovanni
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Packaged with a black label, the Gianfranco Alessandria 2019 Barolo San Giovanni (with 5,000 bottles made) is born in a little-known cru located in Monforte d'Alba. The wine is padded with extra richness and rich fruit in this vintage, and it reveals lots of aromatic detail and nuance with wild cherry, rose, crushed stone and a dab of dried mint. The finish is dry and mineral driven in an especially subtle manner.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2019 Barolo San Giovanni is the more powerful of the estate's two Barolos. It offers up scents of mocha, spice, dark cherry, plum and leather. There's a bit more new oak too, which adds intensity as well as volume. The San Giovanni emerges form the oldest vines on the property, but I have to admit I like the straight Barolo a bit more because of its greater finesse.