2015 - Barolo Monvigliero, Comm. G.B. Burlotto

The 2015 Barolo Monvigliero is a wine of pure and total seduction. The warm vintage has filled out the wine's frame beautifully. The interplay of ripe, succulent 2015 fruit and aromatic intensity from the whole clusters yields a positively stunning, breathtaking wine of the very highest level. Once again, Burlotto's Barolo Monvigliero takes a place among the most compelling wines of the vintage. Readers who can find it should not hesitate!

I mentioned that slightly wild side of Verduno in a previous review for Comm. G.B. Burlotto. For further clarity on this point, put your nose into the beautiful 2015 Barolo Monvigliero. This is a subdued and graceful wine that grows in intensity the longer it stays in the glass. The wine offers blue flower aromas with violets, wild rose, cumin seed, saffron and crushed mineral. This wine plays its best cards when you focus on the smallest details, and then suddenly, those tiny brush strokes explode into a big-picture, panoramic view of one of the most celebrated vineyard sites in Barolo.

Verduno. 100% whole-bunch fermentation with total skin maceration of two months. Lustrous and just mid ruby with orange tinges. Beautifully perfumed cherry and raspberry fruit laced with exotic spice. Gorgeous supple and fresh palate with bags of coating tannins, which never overpower the elegant, long-lasting fruit. Very embryonic. (WS)