2019 - Barolo Bricco Ambrogio, Bruna Grimaldi

The Bruna Grimaldi 2019 Barolo Bricco Ambrogio (with 4,500 bottles made) boasts a very vibrant and lively garnet color that is slightly on the darker side of your standard Nebbiolo. This cru site in Roddi tends to make accessible Barolos, and you could say the same for this edition. The wild card, however, is the excellent 2019 vintage, which gives this wine more abundant fruit density and structure. Generally speaking, you get a bigger bolder wine this year.

The 2019 Barolo Bricco Ambrogio is the most nuanced of these three wines from Bruna Grimaldi. It offers plenty of impact and overt richness, but also quite a bit of aromatic nuance to balance things out. Give the tannins a bit of time to soften.

Roddi. Lustrous mid ruby with orange tinges. Cool raspberry nose with a hint of cooked rhubarb. A core of ripe red fruit layered with coating tannins. Very slow to show it all and with a juicy, if embryonic, finish. A really impressive result for this little-known vineyard. (WS)