2021 Barolo Vigna del Gris
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Monforte d’Alba. Certified organic (CCPB). Lustrous, healthy ruby. Fine oak notes over shy cherry fruit, with saline touches. Suave, polished cherry fruit charged with grainy tannins adding tension and complexity. Long focused cherry fruit with integrated but firm tannins on the finish. Not ready yet but it will be worth the wait. (WS)
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Jancis Robinson MW
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Opening to aromas of dried cherry and blackcurrant, the organic Conterno Fantino 2021 Barolo Ginestra Vigna del Gris makes a fleshy and enriched appearance with hints of black licorice, tar and crushed rose at the back. The wine has a softer, velvety quality of tannins that makes it slightly more approachable in the medium term, but I nevertheless recommend more bottle age.
A perfumed Barolo with mint, licorice, graphite, earth, strawberries and fresh red cherries on the nose. Full-bodied and full of fruit concentration that coats the tannins. Velvety on the mid-palate, with integrated, lifted acidity. Try from 2027.