2019 Fratelli Alessandria, Barolo, Monvigliero 1x750ml

Vinous 94

The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero is a potent wine for a site usually known for finesse. Dark red cherry, iron, dried herbs, cedar and tobacco all drive through this painfully backward, somber Barolo. Here, too, readers will have to be patient. This is an especially forbidding Monvigliero. [Antonio Galloni, 04/01/2024]

Anticipated maturity: 2029-2044

Robert Parker 97

"The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero shows a medium dark garnet appearance with an especially focused quality of fruit. There is wild cherry and Japanese plum, but the Monvigliero cru also delivers crushed rose, earthy iris root, candied orange peel with clove and dustings of black pepper. The wine is exceedingly silky and polished in texture, but its inherent complexity is never diminished. It should be interesting to revisit this bottle after the 10-year mark. This estate was the first to bottle a Monvigliero in 1978, and today 7,000 bottles are made." [Monica Larner, 24/08/2023]

Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045