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Oddero's wines display a combination of tradition with a dash of polish, with moderately long extraction times of around 25 days. Aging is in 2000L French oak barrels for around 2.5 years in the single vineyard wines.
Vigna Rionda is widely considered to be a "grand cru" of Barolo, even the "grand cru" of the Serralunga zone. They feature a powerful fruit weight with an equally powerful structure of inner acidity and tannic cut that can need an extra few years to mellow. Along with the juicy red fruits like strawberry and cherry, Vigna Riondas have a strong dark-toned side, with spice like licorice, and warm balsam notes yield a brooding tar-and-roses experience with age. Typical drinking windows start 8-10 years from vintage. 2015 was a great vintage for generous, expressive wines at an earlier point, so this is great to drink starting now! Just let it open up in the decanter for a couple hours and expreience the magic of this site.
WINE ADVOCATE 97 POINTS - "The Oddero 2019 Barolo Riserva Vignarionda comes from a site in Serralunga d'Alba. This wine is also quite powerful and rich with dark fruit, dried orange peel, apricot, clove, allspice and dusty earth. The tannins exhibit a moment of sweetness on the mid-palate but are otherwise silky and fine. This wine is poised for medium- or long-term drinking over the next 20 years. Production is 3,800 bottles."
The origins for Cantine e Poderi Oddero go back at least to the 1800s when family members were documented as making wine in the town of La Morra. By 1878, they had their estate bottling, and the by the end of that century, small barrels were being sold to the Americas. The modern winery was shaped by Giacomo Oddero who renovated things in the 1950s, who served officially in guiding Piedmont's agricultural products through the formation of regulations. This is a family who is deeply rooted in the area's agriculture!
Today, Giacomo's daughter, Mariacristina is clearly continuing to make benchmark wines of the Langhe region! The estate's vineyards are spread out, from the Barolo/La Morra slope's Brunate vineyard to Serralunga's "Grand Cru" of Vigna Rionda.
Oddero's wines display a combination of tradition with a dash of polish, with moderately long extraction times of around 25 days. Aging is in 2000L French oak barrels for around 2.5 years in the single vineyard wines.
Vigna Rionda is widely considered to be a "grand cru" of Barolo, even the "grand cru" of the Serralunga zone. They feature a powerful fruit weight with an equally powerful structure of inner acidity and tannic cut that can need an extra few years to mellow. Along with the juicy red fruits like strawberry and cherry, Vigna Riondas have a strong dark-toned side, with spice like licorice, and warm balsam notes yield a brooding tar-and-roses experience with age. Typical drinking windows start 8-10 years from vintage. 2015 was a great vintage for generous, expressive wines at an earlier point, so this is great to drink starting now! Just let it open up in the decanter for a couple hours and expreience the magic of this site.
WINE ADVOCATE 97 POINTS - "The Oddero 2019 Barolo Riserva Vignarionda comes from a site in Serralunga d'Alba. This wine is also quite powerful and rich with dark fruit, dried orange peel, apricot, clove, allspice and dusty earth. The tannins exhibit a moment of sweetness on the mid-palate but are otherwise silky and fine. This wine is poised for medium- or long-term drinking over the next 20 years. Production is 3,800 bottles."
The origins for Cantine e Poderi Oddero go back at least to the 1800s when family members were documented as making wine in the town of La Morra. By 1878, they had their estate bottling, and the by the end of that century, small barrels were being sold to the Americas. The modern winery was shaped by Giacomo Oddero who renovated things in the 1950s, who served officially in guiding Piedmont's agricultural products through the formation of regulations. This is a family who is deeply rooted in the area's agriculture!
Today, Giacomo's daughter, Mariacristina is clearly continuing to make benchmark wines of the Langhe region! The estate's vineyards are spread out, from the Barolo/La Morra slope's Brunate vineyard to Serralunga's "Grand Cru" of Vigna Rionda.
