Winemaker Notes
With heady aromatics, soft, ripe tannins, sweet spice, leather and dark plum cherry fruit, Revello exemplifies the elegance of Barolo from La Morra.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Medium red with a garnet hue, the 2020 Barolo is bright and lifted on the nose with aromas of cranberries, burnt orange peel, incense, and dried roses. Medium-bodied and lively, with ripe acidity and a balanced feel, it’s refined and refreshing, with fine tannins and a very well-balanced, even finish. This is a very nice entry to the range and shows a lot of promise. Enjoy it over the next 10 years.
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James Suckling
Nervy minerality with fresh raspberries, strawberries and white pepper. Medium body with juicy, chalky tannins and a pithy finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
The wine is exceptionally pretty, showing an elevated and concentrated bouquet that leaps from the glass with a mixed of cherry, sweet spice and porcini. A mouthwatering experience that is both delightful and intense, the palate is lifted and shows the purity of Nebbiolo with high-toned wild red fruits woven together with savory and earthy elements that no one could undo.
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Wine Spectator
An open, elegant red, depicting flavors of cherry and strawberry shaded with toasty oak spices. The wood is subtle, so this should find its balance in a year or two. Best from 2027 through 2039. 1,600 cases made, 533 cases imported.
Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area, as well as in the neighboring Valle d’Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piedmontese villages of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Somm Secret—If you’re new to Nebbiolo, start with a charming, wallet-friendly, early-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba.
The center of the production of the world’s most exclusive and age-worthy red wines made from Nebbiolo, the Barolo wine region includes five core townships: La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Serralunga d’Alba, Castiglione Falletto and the Barolo village itself, as well as a few outlying villages. The landscape of Barolo, characterized by prominent and castle-topped hills, is full of history and romance centered on the Nebbiolo grape. Its wines, with the signature “tar and roses” aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.
There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.
On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.
The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.