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2018 Barolo, Ravera, G.D. Vajra, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Not ready (Drink 2025 - 2051)
Walter Speller
17++/20
Antonio Galloni
93/100
James Suckling
93/100
Product: 20188205793

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2018 Barolo, Ravera, G.D. Vajra, Piedmont, Italy

Description

This comes from a five-hectare plot with a mix of soil types, located in a south to south-east facing amphitheatre at an altitude of 320-340 meters. It’s rich and ripe on the nose, with plush sweet fruit, smoky savoury spice and a balsamic lift. A wine of deceptive power, with drive and vibrant energy, and a touch of salinity on the finish.

Drink 2026 - 2040

Adrian Brice, Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 14.5%
Maturity Not ready (2025 - 2051)
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Producer G. D. Vajra

Critics reviews

Walter Speller 17++/20
Novello. The grapes were harvested on 10 and 14 October and the wine stayed on the skins for 58 days with submerged cap. Aged in large Slavonian oak casks of 25 and 50 hl. Bottled 7 July 2021.Lustrous mid ruby. Subtle, fragrant and concentrated and with fantastic depth and earthy minerally notes. Cherry and raspberry fruit with a hint of damson. Richly tannic adding chew to the juicy elegant fruit. On the finish, quite a bit of tannins that still need to integrate into the very long fruit finish. Compact and pithy. Drink 2023 - 2030Walter Speller, JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2021)
Drink 2023 - 2030
Walter Speller, JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2021)
Antonio Galloni 93/100
The 2018 Barolo Ravera is a powerful, tightly wound wine. Gravel, smoke, cured meats, spice, leather, tobacco and menthol emerge, but only with quite a bit of reticence. This deceptively mid-weight Barolo has a good bit of brawn. It will be interesting to see if the fruit emerges from behind the tannins.Drink 2026 - 2043antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (Feb 2022)
Drink 2023 - 2030
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Feb 2022)
James Suckling 93/100
Rich, ripe mixed berries and perfumed bark on the nose. Medium-to full-bodied with some lightly firm tannin giving support to the fruit. Lacks the complexity of recent vintages, but has a promising core. Give it a while to broaden out. Try from 2024.james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (Jan 2022)
Drink 2023 - 2030
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Jan 2022)

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