Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cerretta 2017

91-95 rating
91-95 review

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Specification

Country

Region

Sub Region

Bottling

Estate Bottled

Year

Type of Wine

Red wine

Bottle size

0.75 L

Packaging

Loose

Rating

95

Reviewer

Wine-Advocate

Label

gl

Capsule

good condition

Level

neck

Thanks to altitude and heavier soils, Cerretta performs well in hot vintages, such as 2017, 2015 and 2011. The vines (planted a quarter century ago) sit at about 400 meters in elevation and water moisture is absorbed by the clay of Serralunga d’Alba. These conditions help to shape the wine’s important tannins and elegant structure. Ultimately however, I found the 2017 Barolo Cerretta to be very much identified by its birth year. The wine offers a long interlude of intense brightness with sweet cherry, fragolino and wild rose, which soften any angular or hard edges put forth by the Nebbiolo grape. This 2017 vintage is exceedingly smooth and silky in character with a pliant or yielding quality that should serve it nicely as the wine completes its aging trajectory. 2025 – 205

Giacomo Conterno’s Barolo “Cerretta” is a strong, distinguished, and very refined Langhe expression, aged for almost 40 months in large oak barrels. With floral and balsamic overtones of villets, rhubarb, and tobacco, it expresses itself with power and intensity. The flavor is structured, warm, mineral, and long-lasting. Intense, warm, structured, mineral and balsamic, with smooth tannins and with a very long persistence

 

 

 

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