2020 Barolo Villero

Youthful and ripe ruby red in color, the 2020 Barolo Villero has a fantastic bouquet of pure ripe raspberries, wet stones, fresh roses, and sweet sage. Medium-bodied, it’s approachable up front and balanced, with refined tension through the mid-palate, fine tannins, and refreshing acidity. Weightless, with good ripeness, it’s long on the palate and has a lasting perfume of dried apricot. Absolutely lovely , it’s going to offer a wide drinking window over the next 15 or so years.

Showing more tobacco, leather, cranberry and freshly-tilled soil, this is a bolder style of Nebbiolo. The Oddero 2020 Barolo Villero has an interlude of sweet cherry and plump fruit, but then it veers toward tart fruit flavors followed by fine powdery tannins. Smoothness is a theme that continues throughout. It ages in large French oak casks and spends six months in cement vat to better integrate. Production is 6,000 bottles.

Precise, textural and long with aromas of dried thyme, cherries, forest berries, dried herbs and crushed black pepper. It’s medium- to full-bodied with fine, firm tannins and fresh acidity. Lively and agile with a succulent core of sour cherries and white pepper at the center. A crushed stone character brings a mineral touch to it and onto the long, focused finish. Try after 2029.