Poderi Oddero - Barolo Villero 2019 (750ml)
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
With fruit from Castiglione Falletto the 2019 Barolo Villero is graceful and light with a beautifully silky approach to the palate. It is pleasing to the eye thanks to the shiny ruby color that is characteristic of this vintage and to the nose thanks to a graceful bouquet with redcurrant spice and blue flower. It shows similar traits to the mouth thanks to a very sharp or linear element. Oddero's Villero knocks it out of the park across this portfolio of new releases. This is a 6000-bottle production.
James Suckling: 95 Points
Love the aromas of freshly sliced strawberries with lemon bush and hibiscus that follow through to a medium body with fine and chewy tannins and a fresh and focused finish. A linear and poised young Barolo. Drink after 2027.
Kerin O'Keefe: 95 Points
Balsamic aromas recalling eucalyptus and menthol mingle with rose violet forest floor and tobacco on this fragrant full-bodied red. Tightly knit with youthful intensity the structured palate palate also shows great elegance delivering ripe red cherry spiced cranberry licor
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2019 Barolo Villero is a powerful classically austere young Barolo. Then again that is Villero. Bright acids and clean mineral underpinnings give the 2019 striking energy. Spice dried flowers mint crushed rocks cranberry and pine all build with a bit of time in the glass. I very much admire the precision here but the Villero clearly needs time. The only question is how much. (Drink between 2025-2044)
