Winemaker Notes
Bric Turot is an intense garnet red color with dark ruby highlights. The nose is complex with notes of licorice that balance perfectly with hints of small berries, cinnamon, cloves and pleasant violet sensations. The palate is striking with its rounded mouth-filling tannins with a long aftertaste of ripe fruit.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Prunotto's 2016 Barbaresco Bric Turot is defined by a very focused mineral edge that runs straight through the wine from start to finish. The bouquet is redolent of rose hip, dried fruit, violets and crushed oyster shell. That latter limestone or calcium-like tone gives the wine a dusty and dry character that adds to its elegance and unique personality.
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James Suckling
Lots of watermelon on the nose of this Barbaresco, in addition to cranberries, redcurrants and some stemmy notes. Medium-bodied with fine tannins, a tangy core of acidity and red fruit and a vibrant finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Underbrush, toast, menthol, hazelnut and sour cherry aromas appear in the glass. The racy palate evokes pomegranate, citrus rind and coffee bean before a tight, drying finish that suggests dried sage.
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Wine Spectator
Floral and juniper aromas are augmented by cherry, strawberry, iron and underbrush notes in this red, which is supple, yet with plenty of structure and dense tannins. A bit firm now, with fine length. Best from 2022 through 2033.
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.
A wine that most perfectly conveys the spirit and essence of its place, Barbaresco is true reflection of terroir. Its star grape, like that in the neighboring Barolo region, is Nebbiolo. Four townships within the Barbaresco zone can produce Barbaresco: the actual village of Barbaresco, as well as Neive, Treiso and San Rocco Seno d'Elvio.
Broadly speaking there are more similarities in the soils of Barbaresco and Barolo than there are differences. Barbaresco’s soils are approximately of the same two major soil types as Barolo: blue-grey marl of the Tortonion epoch, producing more fragile and aromatic characteristics, and Helvetian white yellow marl, which produces wines with more structure and tannins.
Nebbiolo ripens earlier in Barbaresco than in Barolo, primarily due to the vineyards’ proximity to the Tanaro River and lower elevations. While the wines here are still powerful, Barbaresco expresses a more feminine side of Nebbiolo, often with softer tannins, delicate fruit and an elegant perfume. Typical in a well-made Barbaresco are expressions of rose petal, cherry, strawberry, violets, smoke and spice. These wines need a few years before they reach their peak, the best of which need over a decade or longer. Bottle aging adds more savory characteristics, such as earth, iron and dried fruit.