2020 Barbaresco Serraboella

A youthful and saturated magenta color, the 2020 Barbaresco Serraboella is well-layered and has a great nose, with a seductive appeal in the notes of blackberries, licorice candies, lavender, fresh leather, and alpine herbs that lift from the glass. Medium to full-bodied, it has a seamless texture with velvety tannins and reveals a plush richness through the mid-palate while remaining fresh. This is an exceptional wine from this vintage, with a lot of detail in its plush style, but it’s harmonious and just so well done. Drink 2025-2045.

The Cigliuti family were the first to put Serraboella on the label, in 1967. 65-year-old vines, limestone soils. 26 months in botte and tonneaux. More red in the colour here than in the Vie Erte 2020 – more vibrant colour. Fabulous, open aroma of tangy red fruit – pretty, floral and yet intense. Thick but refined tannins. Many layers of finesse, great freshness and purity as well as incipient complexity. It is the tannins as much as the acidity that make this mouth-watering. (JH)

The 2020 Barbaresco Serraboella is another stellar wine in this range from Cigliuti. It offers a stunning mix of succulent dark fruit, rose petal, lavender, mocha and spice. The 2020 spent 26 months in oak, 70% cask and 30% tonneaux, the smaller barrels adding soft contours. Just bottled, the 2020 shows tons of potential. Blood orange, crushed red berry fruit, mint, spice, rose petal and a kick of sweet French oak linger.