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Brovia, Barolo Villero 2013
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Description
Brovia, Barolo, Villero, Piedmont, Italy, Still, Red, 2010
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Barolo Villero is magnificent. In fact, the 2013 may very well be the single most impressive young Brovia Villero I have tasted. Specifically, the flavors are vivid, delineated and wonderfully alive. The characteristic Villero spiced/balsamic notes are very much present. Black cherry, menthol, licorice, cloves and lavender infuse the impeccable, layered finish. Today, the Villero is explosive and showy. Readers will have to be patient. This is a fabulous showing.
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
With only 5,000 bottles produced, the 2013 Barolo Villero is a wine of enormous beauty and purity. The bouquet shows precision and focus with long-range aromas of dried forest berry, spice, wild rose and white licorice. There is a slightly salty or mineral note that adds to the wine's overall dryness and polished nature. This is a beautiful Barolo that requires at least 10 more years in the bottle.
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
With only 5,000 bottles produced, the 2013 Barolo Villero is a wine of enormous beauty and purity. The bouquet shows precision and focus with long-range aromas of dried forest berry, spice, wild rose and white licorice. There is a slightly salty or mineral note that adds to the wine's overall dryness and polished nature. This is a beautiful Barolo that requires at least 10 more years in the bottle.
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Barolo Villero is magnificent. In fact, the 2013 may very well be the single most impressive young Brovia Villero I have tasted. Specifically, the flavors are vivid, delineated and wonderfully alive. The characteristic Villero spiced/balsamic notes are very much present. Black cherry, menthol, licorice, cloves and lavender infuse the impeccable, layered finish. Today, the Villero is explosive and showy. Readers will have to be patient. This is a fabulous showing.
About the Producer
Brovia was founded in 1863 and remains to this day a small, family owned and run winery. Broiva has one of the most impressive vineyards collection in the entire Barolo: 19 hectares of vineyards in Castiglione Falletto and Serralunga d'Alba which read like a list of the greatest vineyards in Barolo: Garbèt Suѐ, Rocche, Villero in Castiglione Falletto, and Brea in Serralunga d’Alba. Brovia’s production is tiny, around 60,000 bottles of wines per annum (half of it are Barolo). Yields in the vineyard and also in the winemaking are kept very low to produce the best wines. Brovia practices organic farming, uses natural yeast fermentation, maceration time is around 20-25 days. The wines are aged in the most traditionist method: in 3,000 liters botti (big barrels) until it is ready for bottling unfiltered.
