Joan E Solsman

9.0

$7 at Astor and a staff pick touted as a “solid pizza sipper” — liked it enough to get again and pay better attention — 3 years ago

Pablo Cetlinski

9.3

Great dark cherry fruit with exposed tannins. Not much earth and tar. Great Barolo to pair with many Italian foods. — 5 years ago

Jim Chen

9.2

Pale color belies its intensity. Enjoying a lovely dinner at Vue de Monde with renato and albane the sommelier. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Crazy nose on a cool a f rose. I detest rose and love this wine. Was $18 i think. Nose of dried leaves, some faint roses, citrus skin, really nice and precise. Palate is precise and vivid with lovely first of season cherry and come citrusy elements. High acid and nice structure. Needs 30 minutes of air. Nice density, structure and concentration. — 8 years ago

Evelyn Fleisher

9.2

Really good, had at upland — 8 years ago

Margie Warner

9.5

One of my favorite wine. — 9 years ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.4

Pungent dirty musty nose. Earthy and soft edges notes of tar. Elegant and beautiful — 9 years ago

with Frank

Will Stanley

9.4

My first time trying one of the wines from Cantina del Pino, an estate with greater ties to Barbaresco’s roots than most. The Vacca family were long a part of the Produttori but in 1997 branched out (yes, a pun: it was they who in the 1920s planted the now iconic pine tree on the highest point of the Ovello lieu-dit), and now produce two single vineyard Barbaresco bottlings (this, and an Albesani), as well as a generic Barbaresco and Langhe, Barbera and Dolcetto wines.

Tragically, winemaker Renato Vacca died in March last year after a yearlong battle with cancer. The 2016 vintage, just bottled, is supposed to be superb.

For now, though, the Ovello from the less lauded 2012 vintage. This is a knockout wine, still young, and with great promise. The nose is very exotic, quite heady & oaky even after a two hour decant, but opened up as the evening progressed, to give gorgeous aromas of macerated cherry, blackberry preserve, cinnamon, cedar and old leather. It screams Nebbiolo, and it’s the first Nebb I’ve had in a year or so.

The palate is very concentrated, with ripe and intense flavours of cranberry, dried cherry, cured meat and tobacco leaf. There is great tension and energy through the mouth, which only this village - or its neighbour - can achieve. The finish is long and impressive. A seductive, ageworthy wine.

94+ — 4 years ago

Darren Stevens

8.9

Tim’s Wine Market $22 — 7 years ago

Andre Rodrigues

9.0

Bebido no La Niña. Não localizou. — 7 years ago

Vay John Blazina

9.0

The 1990 has a lovely light almost herbal nose with a fairly dark red color with minimal browning of the edges & a moderate body with good complexity & good acid & balanced tannins & lovely complex aftertaste. It will last 5-15 years in a cool cellar. — 8 years ago

Andrew

8.9

Leather and elegant. — 8 years ago

Anaïs Jollivet

9.3

Orange wine — 9 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.3

So pure, fresh as spring water. Totally get the tangerine on this. Beautiful mid-palate. Alpine. — 5 years ago

with Judy, Alsu and 1 other

Cathy Levy

9.0

Cheers Renato... we keep you in our hearts. — 5 years ago

Pierre Costa

9.3

Classic Barolo — 7 years ago

Manuel Buergi

9.3

(Magnum bottle)
What a hulking but at the same time incredibly graceful Barolo. Deep-rooted minerals, plums, dark chocolate, mocha and a bit of smoke, well integrated oak & smooth, sweet tannins. definitely showing the darker side of rocche in this fabolous piece of land in la morra. — 8 years ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.2

Wild strawberries soft and nice acidity clean well balanced front center tannins — 8 years ago

with Frank, Bob and 1 other

Gian Agosto-Troche

9.0

Light with a full body finish 👌🏽 — 9 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.2

Such a beautifully expressive & high toned Langhe, if only other Langhe's could give back so much at a young age. — 9 years ago