2021 Poderi Luigi Einaudi Barolo Costa Grimaldi
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The 2021 Barolo Terlo Vigna Costa Grimaldi has a youthful saturated red/garnet color and an elegant and seductive profile, with delicate notes of sandalwood, cranberries, and incense, a hint of fresh leather coaxing as it opens. The palate comes to life with fantastic clarity to its ripe red fruit, with a medium-bodied frame, ripe tannins, and a rounded midpalate. It’s even through the finish and is likely going to improve with another year as it comes out of its shell. Drink 2026-2040.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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The Poderi Luigi Einaudi 2021 Barolo Terlo Vigna Costa Grimaldi is already silky and glossy in texture with a beautiful entry to the palate. There is a long slide of cassis and wild cherry followed by soft violet, sweet almond and licorice. Those Terlo tannins are firm but not excessively so, and the wine's texture is poised to become ever-more silky in time. Production is 5,053 bottles and some larger formats too.
Grapes come from Terlo in Barolo. Just mid ruby. At Einaudi they call it a Bussia-like nose and they are not wrong. Spicy and voluminous on the nose with chalky, minerally notes. Depth and with hints of dark fruit and raspberry. Light on the palate but, at the same time, concentrated. Finely balanced with juicy acidity and gravelly tannins that come like waves. (WS)
The 2021 Barolo Terlo Vigna Costa Grimaldi is lifted and aromatic, with a good bit of the mineral nervosity that defines wines from this site. Chalk, mint, white pepper, iron and dried herbs lend notable complexity throughout. This is a decidedly taut, youthfully austere Barolo.