| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
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The Rizzi 2020 Barbaresco Rizzi shows an etched, focused bouquet that cedes to crushed rose, cassis and dried cherry. It has a guiding note of metal or rust that seems specific to this bottle. The Rizzi cru rises a moderate 230 to 300 meters in elevation with limestone, clay and sand. The wine has a ripe side for sure, owing to the hot vintage, but it also shows a firm and compact quality that Nebbiolo delivers effortlessly. Some 24,000 bottles were released. 2024-2037
Intense, showing plenty of flowery notes with leafy strawberry, liquorice stick and almost citrussy on the finish. Velvety and dusty on the palate with high yet integrated acidity. One of the best-priced Barbarescos. This is the top selection of grapes from different Rizzi vineyards. A truly classic Barbaresco where the absence of menzione geografica is a plus due to the blending of different plots. 2023-2030
Enrico Dellapiana’s 2020 cru bottling from the vineyard of Rizzi is a superb example of the vintage. Readers may recall that this vineyards sits on the same hillside as Nervo, but with more chalky in the soils here, so that Enrico will often give this wine a year and a half of aging in botti prior to racking it into cement tanks to finish its élevage. The bouquet is deep, ripe and beautifully red fruity in personality, offering up scents of cherries, blood orange, gamebird, a complex base of chalky soil tones, red curry, a dollop of fresh oregano, rose petals and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a sappy core of red fruit, lovely transparency and grip, ripe tannins and a long, tangy and beautifully balanced finish. First class juice. (Drink between 2035-2085)
This has aromas of perfumed berry, camphor, exotic spice, pipe tobacco and new leather. The aromas give way to concentrated flavors of raspberry, wild strawberry, licorice and toasted almond alongside tightly woven tannins. Drink 2025–2032.
Mid garnet in colour, the Barbaresco has a strong top note of dried strawberry together with tobacco leaf and a hint of rose. The palate has racy acidity, promoting a vibrant red fruit core. Tangy and compact, this is a refreshing, moreish style packed with bright notes of strawberry, redcurrant and red cherry. With hint of amaro on the end, this is immediately enjoyable but retains the bite of Nebbiolo that should help this to age gracefully for a decade.
Alba. Just mid ruby. Minerally nose with hints of iron and a suggestion of fennel seeds. Elegant, almost a little light on the palate, becoming more complex and certainly more tannic on the finish. Has the bones to age. 2023 - 2030.
