98+ points Luca Gardini: "Verduno’s most prestigious cru, with 45-year-old plants. The aroma is refined, with notes of red blackberry in jam, hints of white pepper, marjoram and a lovely floral scent of peony. Palate with salty tannins, a finish of persistence and impeccable balance. (Apr 2024)"
97 points Monica Larner (Wine Advocate): "The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero shows a medium dark garnet appearance with an especially focused quality of fruit. There is wild cherry and Japanese plum, but the Monvigliero cru also delivers crushed rose, earthy iris root, candied orange peel with clove and dustings of black pepper. The wine is exceedingly silky and polished in texture, but its inherent complexity is never diminished. It should be interesting to revisit this bottle after the 10-year mark. This estate was the first to bottle a Monvigliero in 1978, and today 7,000 bottles are made. Drink 2025-2045 (Aug 2023)"
96 points Wine Enthusiast: "Crushed wild strawberries, raspberries, and elegant floral notes captivate the senses. Tart red cherries and cranberries dance on the palate, accompanied by a delicate herbaceous touch. This pretty Barolo showcases the beauty of Nebbiolo with its vibrant acidity and refined tannins. A transformative wine with a balance so perfect, it would score 10s in the Olympics. Drink now - 2045 (Sep 2024)"
96 points Audrey Frick (JebDunnuck.com): "On pouring, the 2020 Barolo Monvigliero appears paler in the glass compared to the others tasted in this vertical of Monvigliero, but it opens to become spicy, bright, and complete, with notes of strawberries, spice, fresh flowers, cinnamon, and dusty earth. A great wine with the most distinct sense of place, it offers a tightrope of fine tannins, a snappy spine of acidity, and a long finish, with a fresh, balanced, and age-worthy feel as well as savory, mouthwatering tension and mineral undercurrents. Drink it over the next 20 years. Drink between 2024-2044. (5/13/24)"
95 points Kerin O'Keefe: "You’ll find aromas recalling ripe dark-skinned fruit, violet, forest floor and brown exotic spice on the alluring 2020 Monvigliero from Fratelli Alessandria. Full-bodied and elegantly structured, the succulent, enveloping palate features ripe Morello cherry, crushed raspberry, baking spice and licorice before a saline mineral close. A backbone of velvety tannins provides support. It’s already almost at the start of its ideal drinking window where it will maintain for another decade or so. Drink: 2026–2035. Abv: 14.5%. (Mar 2024)"
95 points Ian D'Agata Wine Review: "Vibrant red colour. Red and dark berries, apricot, herbs, and minerals galore on the enticing nose. Then taut and laser-like, with a classical austerity that promises a graceful evolution in the bottle. The red fruit and spicy flavours are mineral and freshly lean, very long and vibrant, not to mention quite saline on the bright back end. A whiplash of mouthcoating but noble tannins nicely frame everything together. This gorgeous, highly promising Barolo will only improve in its mouthfeel as time wears on. Better in six years, and whatever you do, don’t believe the naysayers who speak about 2020 being a poor or so-so vintage: this wine is proof-positive it just isn’t so. Drinking window: 2030-2040. (Nov 2024)"
97 points Monica Larner (Wine Advocate): "The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero shows a medium dark garnet appearance with an especially focused quality of fruit. There is wild cherry and Japanese plum, but the Monvigliero cru also delivers crushed rose, earthy iris root, candied orange peel with clove and dustings of black pepper. The wine is exceedingly silky and polished in texture, but its inherent complexity is never diminished. It should be interesting to revisit this bottle after the 10-year mark. This estate was the first to bottle a Monvigliero in 1978, and today 7,000 bottles are made. Drink 2025-2045 (Aug 2023)"
96 points Wine Enthusiast: "Crushed wild strawberries, raspberries, and elegant floral notes captivate the senses. Tart red cherries and cranberries dance on the palate, accompanied by a delicate herbaceous touch. This pretty Barolo showcases the beauty of Nebbiolo with its vibrant acidity and refined tannins. A transformative wine with a balance so perfect, it would score 10s in the Olympics. Drink now - 2045 (Sep 2024)"
96 points Audrey Frick (JebDunnuck.com): "On pouring, the 2020 Barolo Monvigliero appears paler in the glass compared to the others tasted in this vertical of Monvigliero, but it opens to become spicy, bright, and complete, with notes of strawberries, spice, fresh flowers, cinnamon, and dusty earth. A great wine with the most distinct sense of place, it offers a tightrope of fine tannins, a snappy spine of acidity, and a long finish, with a fresh, balanced, and age-worthy feel as well as savory, mouthwatering tension and mineral undercurrents. Drink it over the next 20 years. Drink between 2024-2044. (5/13/24)"
95 points Kerin O'Keefe: "You’ll find aromas recalling ripe dark-skinned fruit, violet, forest floor and brown exotic spice on the alluring 2020 Monvigliero from Fratelli Alessandria. Full-bodied and elegantly structured, the succulent, enveloping palate features ripe Morello cherry, crushed raspberry, baking spice and licorice before a saline mineral close. A backbone of velvety tannins provides support. It’s already almost at the start of its ideal drinking window where it will maintain for another decade or so. Drink: 2026–2035. Abv: 14.5%. (Mar 2024)"
95 points Ian D'Agata Wine Review: "Vibrant red colour. Red and dark berries, apricot, herbs, and minerals galore on the enticing nose. Then taut and laser-like, with a classical austerity that promises a graceful evolution in the bottle. The red fruit and spicy flavours are mineral and freshly lean, very long and vibrant, not to mention quite saline on the bright back end. A whiplash of mouthcoating but noble tannins nicely frame everything together. This gorgeous, highly promising Barolo will only improve in its mouthfeel as time wears on. Better in six years, and whatever you do, don’t believe the naysayers who speak about 2020 being a poor or so-so vintage: this wine is proof-positive it just isn’t so. Drinking window: 2030-2040. (Nov 2024)"
| Product SKU | 350799 |
| Producer | Fratelli Alessandria |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| SubRegion | Barolo DOCG |
| Varietal | Nebbiolo |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | Red |
| ABV | 14.5% |
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