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KERIN O'KEEFE 99 POINTS - "This beautiful Barolo stuns with heady scents of rose, violet, ripe red berry and white pepper. Showing great precision and utterly delicious, the focused, structured palate doles out ripe red berry, wild strawberry, licorice, and the same white pepper note from the nose along with sage and almost salty mineral notes. It’s youthfully tense but well balanced, boasting tightly wound, refined tannins and vibrant acidity. Drink 2029–2049. Abv: 14.5% Kerin O’Keefe March 2023 ©kerinokeefe.com Nebbiolo 23/03"
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "With fruit from one of the top growing sites in Castiglione Falletto, the 2019 Barolo Villero shows a slightly ripe and soft side with cherry and dried raspberry followed by licorice, tar and rusty metal. This is an elegant expression, with a terrific sense of focus, that delivers complexity and depth, especially in this excellent vintage. "
"In 1863 Giacinto Brovia founded the Brovia estate in the village of Castiglione Falletto, in the heart of the Barolo district...in 1953, two brothers, Giacinto and Raffaele, grandchildren of the founder, resumed full-scale wine production... Giacinto's daughter Elena and her husband Alex Sanchez are now completely engaged as the fourth generation in the affairs of this family-run estate...
The Brovia wines are vinified in the classic style. Grapes are lightly crushed before going into the fermentation tanks. The length of the fermentation period depends on the grape variety but the Nebbiolo for various Barolo cuvées can extend as long as a month or more at temperatures between 28 and 30 degrees Celsius. The Baroli are aged for at least two years in 30 hectoliter barrels of Slavonian and French oak. The wines are then bottled without filtration." - ROSENTHAL WINE MERCHANT
KERIN O'KEEFE 99 POINTS - "This beautiful Barolo stuns with heady scents of rose, violet, ripe red berry and white pepper. Showing great precision and utterly delicious, the focused, structured palate doles out ripe red berry, wild strawberry, licorice, and the same white pepper note from the nose along with sage and almost salty mineral notes. It’s youthfully tense but well balanced, boasting tightly wound, refined tannins and vibrant acidity. Drink 2029–2049. Abv: 14.5% Kerin O’Keefe March 2023 ©kerinokeefe.com Nebbiolo 23/03"
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "With fruit from one of the top growing sites in Castiglione Falletto, the 2019 Barolo Villero shows a slightly ripe and soft side with cherry and dried raspberry followed by licorice, tar and rusty metal. This is an elegant expression, with a terrific sense of focus, that delivers complexity and depth, especially in this excellent vintage. "
"In 1863 Giacinto Brovia founded the Brovia estate in the village of Castiglione Falletto, in the heart of the Barolo district...in 1953, two brothers, Giacinto and Raffaele, grandchildren of the founder, resumed full-scale wine production... Giacinto's daughter Elena and her husband Alex Sanchez are now completely engaged as the fourth generation in the affairs of this family-run estate...
The Brovia wines are vinified in the classic style. Grapes are lightly crushed before going into the fermentation tanks. The length of the fermentation period depends on the grape variety but the Nebbiolo for various Barolo cuvées can extend as long as a month or more at temperatures between 28 and 30 degrees Celsius. The Baroli are aged for at least two years in 30 hectoliter barrels of Slavonian and French oak. The wines are then bottled without filtration." - ROSENTHAL WINE MERCHANT
