Ray Vanderhoff

9.3

Bright garnet color with a ruby core. Aromas and flavors of red cherry/raspberry, plums, leather, rose petals and black licorice. Wonderful earthy element on the long finish. Fine silky tannins and beautifully light bodied. Extremely well integrated, long lasting and elegant. Quite the crowd pleaser. — 8 months ago

Eric Grasser

9.2

Very lush and driven by dark flavors and tones. The firm tannins display how well structured this Barbaresco is — 3 years ago

Lev Lavrichtchev

9.1

Tasted at the winery. Good potential to develop, still will be on the light side of Nebbiolo — 6 years ago

Pooneet K

9.3

Great bottle. Love Produttori but have not had this before. With an hour decant this was truly excellent. Intensely aromatic, mouth filling, long finish with a touch of menthol, present but quite silky tannins. Perfect with boar sausage and a ribeye. — 8 years ago

B

10

1982 Bruno Giacosa Serralunga d'Alba Riserva Barolo. Second red at post-museum lunch at Il P. Drank this alongside the '82 Giacosa Brunello. This was much more well rounded with a longer finish. More favored of the two wines hands down — 10 years ago

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

9.1

Very smart 'cru' Barbaresco ; absolutely spotless with fruit; young wine with the elegance in 2009 — 11 years ago

Dan R

9.1

Fragrant, cherry floral earth and leather tones. Oaky on the palate, still pretty aggressive. Dense. Intense with serious palate impact. Kinda hard to rate…could use a few more years I figure — 8 months ago

David Schoonover

9.5

So good, 2+ hour decant was the ticket! — 3 years ago

with Benjamin

Michael Meyer

9.2

A reopening wine. Brilliant fruit, firmly structured, with slightly tart tones leading to a medium long finish. Happily paired with flatiron steak fresh from a kitchen other than mine. My first Paitin in fact. — 5 years ago

Andrew Lohse

9.2

Fat elegance — 8 years ago

Vicente Piedrahita

9.5

Supremely elegant. A bit young, in hindsight should have waited. But loved it all the same. — 9 years ago

Maggie Walters

10

Simply amazing! This is so delicious and sophisticated. — 10 years ago

with Aaron

Nicola Morvillo

9.5

Cena con gian Paolo e giulio — 12 years ago

Andy Stabile

9.0

Dry, soft, touch of spice
Very nice — 9 months ago

John Davidson

8.9

A bit young — 3 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.6

A m a z I n g. Fine furry tannins straight away so we decanted. One hour later this was singing. The nose was so pretty with cacao powder, faint sweet tarragon, and strawberries. Mouth coating raspberry fruit roll ups, smooth tannins makes this beautiful. TBL — 5 years ago

Andy Stabile

9.2

Empty... nuff said. — 6 years ago

Premshree Pillai

9.0

Tannins mellow out a little on day two. Beautiful and elegant, wonderful expression of Nebbiolo and the region. — 8 years ago

Anthony Biagi

Winemaker Hourglass, Owner Patria

9.3

Exactly what I needed — 10 years ago

Nils Johnson

9.2

Some of the happiness may indeed be because I've been a little to Californian lately. Occupational hazard. This has got pretty violet aromas mixed with herbal notes of pine and faint rosemary. Palate reflects aromas, adding dried cranberries, leather and tobacco notes. Good tannic grip. — 12 years ago