Produttori del Barbaresco - Barbaresco Rio Sordo Riserva 2016 (750ml)
Price: $144.99
| Producer | Produttori del Barbaresco |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Subregion | Barbaresco |
| Varietal | Nebbiolo |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Sku | 6929 |
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Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo takes it up a notch if you consider the tasting of each one of these single-vineyard wines tasted in order. With the Rio Sordo, you really start to feel the textural richness and fruit weight that can be achieved with Nebbiolo in a great vintage. This vintage is compact and tightly woven together, suggesting a forecast for an extra long drinking window. The Alutto and Marengo families farm the fruit used in this blend. This wine will live long, and I love that touch of candied licorice that appears on the close (especially when you come back to the open bottle 24 hours later).
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
Eucalyptus, cut hay and licorice accent the cherry, plum and mineral flavors in this suave red. Firm and powerful, with assertive, nervous tannins and vibrant acidity. A bit jumbled today, yet there is energy and length on the finish indicating its future potential.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo is a serious, somber wine. Black cherry, plum, lavender, spice and menthol show off the darker side of Nebbiolo to great effect. In most vintages, Rio Sordo is an easygoing wine, but not in 2016. Readers will find a potent, brooding yet mid-weight Barbaresco that screams with character. What a way to start this tasting!
Wine Enthusiast: 92 Points
With ample time, this eventually reveals camphor, ripe dark-skinned berry and new leather aromas that mingle with a whiff of truffle. The full-bodied palate is also on the shy side, suggesting dried cherry, blood orange, rusty nail and licorice set against assertive, close-grained tannins that grip the close. Give the tannins a few more years to unwind, then drink sooner rather than later.
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