2015 | Roberto Voerzio | Barolo Cerequio

Description

Red Wine: 2015 | Roberto Voerzio | Barolo Cerequio

Barolo Cerequio shows a lively garnet red colour with a balanced and intense bouquet: wild cherry, violets, licorice and tar. At the core of the bouquet, as well as on the palate, there is a lot of dark fruit, including blackcurrants and plums. This is a real stunner with inner fiber that is as strong, but as softly textured, as the highest quality silk.

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Producer: Roberto Voerzio

Ratings: JS | 98WA | 96

Vintage: 2015

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Nebbiolo

Country/Region: Italy, Piemonte

Barolo Cerequio shows a lively garnet red colour with a balanced and intense bouquet: wild cherry, violets, licorice and tar. At the core of the bouquet, as well as on the palate, there is a lot of dark fruit, including blackcurrants and plums. This is a real stunner with inner fiber that is as strong, but as softly textured, as the highest quality silk.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2015 Barolo Cerequio shows impressive and firm construction. This is a real stunner with inner fiber that is as strong, but as softly textured, as the highest quality silk. Aromas of wild cherry, violets, licorice and tar. This wine shows an evident mineral signature at the back.

• James Suckling: Superb complexity on the nose with crushed berries, dried flowers, tar, licorice and aniseed. Full body, firm tannins and superb depth and intesity. Goes on for minutes and changes all the time.

Producer Information

Roberto Voerzio is one of the most acclaimed wine producers in Piedmont. His Barolo wines are highly prized at auction, and are known for being ripe, rich, and less tannic and oaky than many other examples of the famous appellation. The estate owns or manages 8.5 hectares (21 acres) of vineyards around La Morra, with high planting densities producing tiny yields. There are six different parcels of in a range of Barolo crus: Brunate, Cerequio, Capalot, La Serra, Pozzo dell’Anunziata and Sarmassa di Barolo, which are all sources for individual cuvées. In addition, 2013 saw the release of the first vintage – the 2003 – of the Fossati Case Nere 10 Anni Riserva. The portfolio is completed by two leading Barbera d’Alba wines (including the benchmark Vignasse), a Dolcetto d’Alba, a Langhe Merlot, and a Langhe Nebbiolo. Roberto Voerzio is regarded as an arch modernist, but this is more evident in the style of the finished wine rather than the methodology behind it. Macerations are typically 15 days, which fits into the traditionalist camp and, although Voerzio currently uses small barriques for aging, he has stated a desire to return to his previous practice of combining barriques with larger oak casks. The estate was formed in the 1980s when Roberto inherited five hectares (12.5 acres) of his father’s vineyards. His brother Gianni makes wine a few hundred meters away.