Brent Young

9.3

DAY 1
Served with the Vinlog System
👃Wonderful if slightly reticent. Deep, fresh, and perfumed
👅Not fully open? After > 3 hours: elegant, floral, polished. Silky tannins. Lovely finish

The remaining wine was Slow Decanted™️ in my refrigerator

Revisited the wine on two more occasions

DAY 14
Several hours in the glass…
👃Red and purple fruits. Tar with light florals. Bright and chalky
👅Significant fruit with tar, earth, licorice. Spicy
raspberry/cranbery on the long finish. Drinking
well


Fratelli Brovia remains somewhat under the radar despite producing first tier traditionally styles barolos from excellent vineyards
This Brea has the density expected of a Serralunga barolo coupled with the finesse, nuance, & drinkability that comes from excellent winemaking.
-Pretty lightfooted for a hot vintage
-Totally enjoyable after some time in the
glass on all 3 occasions👏🍷
— a month ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.6

Mineral, concrete. Black cherries, mint. Flavors follow. Fine tannic grip. Cassis. Flowers. Violets — 5 months ago

Nagib Nasr

8.9

Interesting…. Can’t say I love it. — 15 days ago

Tom Elliot

Founder Northwest Wines

9.2

Another very agreeable Italian — 2 months ago

romo

9.2

Gained power on day two. Overachiever. — 4 months ago

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9.0

The 2019 Dolcetto d'Alba Vignavillej is a deep, fleshy and voluminous wine. Inky blue/purplish fruit, spice, leather and licorice are all amplified in this decidedly large-scaled Dolcetto from Brovia. Most of this fruit is from the family's Brea property in Serralunga. $19.00 (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, January 2022) — 8 months ago

Bill Belanger

9.2

Full mouthful— barbera grape, with mineral later!! — 2 months ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Popped and poured; no formal notes. Please refer to @Antonio Galloni note for this wine from February in 2018. We’re now in 2022 and he absolutely nails it 💯. I’ve had this bottle in my cellar since release and it’s aging at a glacial pace. I literally have nothing to add. Bravo! — 3 months ago

Devin Bray

9.4

All the typical notes of tar, roses, black cherry, kirsch, petrol, and overall loveliness. — 4 months ago

Jay Kline

9.4

I had a few members of the Tasting Group crew join me in a sort of, "help me drink down my cellar" gathering. Everyone had an opportunity to dig through the cellar and select a bottle of their choosing; the identity of the wine was kept from everyone else and then presented double-blind though, since the bottles were being pulled from my cellar, it wasn't a true double-blind situation for me. This was poured into a decanter and served within an hour of opening. The wine poured a deep garnet color with a slightly brownish orange rim, a deep translucent core and there appeared to be a good amount of fine sediment though, my glass was amongst the last poured. On the nose, I was immediately transported to Piemonte with gorgeous notes of funky cherries, tar, earth, roses, dried herbs and espresso. On the palate, the wine was bone dry with huge tannins and fantastic acid which was confirming my suspicions that this was Nebbiolo...and there was tremendous power here which had me thinking Barolo from a warmer year. Something like 2015 or 2012...but this seemed too developed to be a 2015 and the color was a little more advanced than I would expect for 2012 at this stage, so I figured either 2010 or maybe 2007. The fruit, while prodigious, was beginning to show some dried qualities and there was some leather, cocoa a bit of an umami too which I really liked. There was awesome. I called 2007 Brovia "Rocche". Even with knowledge of my cellar, I got fist bumps all around. Others at the table thought it presented younger than it was. I expect this will continue to drink very well for another 10+ years. — 8 months ago