Giovanni Rosso Cerretta Barolo 2016
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Deep ruby red color with garnet hues. The nose is very elegant and neat with intense notes of red berry jams, wild herbs and chocolate.The palate is dry, fresh, powerful, with thick-yet-polished tannins and a persistent fruity finish.
Ideal with roasts, braised meat, game, and dishes with mushrooms or truffles. Perfect with refined dishes and the elaborate recipes of the excellent Piedmontese culinary tradition.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Giovanni Rosso 2016 Barolo Cerretta is a tight, focused and high-energy expression of Nebbiolo. Red and purple fruit aromas of cassis, dried cranberry and cherry provide pretty highlights, but ample space is given to those equally pretty aromas of licorice, campfire ash and candied orange peel that so deftly play supporting roles. To the palate, this is a glossy, polished wine with enough tannic kick to carry it forward for another 10 or 20 years of cellar aging.
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James Suckling
Intense, subtle strawberry with white-truffle and dried-flower aromas that follow through to a full body with firm, chewy tannins that are polished and beautiful. Needs time to soften. Muscular wine. Try after 2024.
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Wine Spectator
Fragrant and rich, this red offers a core of strawberry, cherry, floral, mint and hay aromas and flavors plying the solidly-built frame. The spine of acidity and tannins quickly shuts down the finish, yet the balance is there. It's long and satisfying. Best from 2023 through 2040.
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Decanter
There have been few disappointments over the last decade at Davide Rosso's estate, with its range of Barolos from Serralunga. Cerretta is a large site at 360 metres, and the wine is vinified and aged traditionally. The nose is smoky with ripe raspberry aromas, while the palate manages to combine voluptuousness with tannic rigour. There's no toughness, just a forceful structure - if at the expense of overt fruitiness. Impressive and very long. Drinking Window 2021 - 2038
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We are a small, family-owned producer in the heart of the Barolo commune of Serralunga d'Alba. We make only red wines, and our passion is for Barolo and its great grape, Nebbiolo.
Since the 1890's the Rosso family has farmed vineyards in Serralunga d'Alba, notably the Crus of Cerretta, La Serra, Broglio, Meriame, Sorano, Costa Bella, Lirano & Damiano. During the early 1980's Giovanni Rosso restructured the vineyards with the aim of growing the best fruit.
Giovanni's son, Davide, studied Oenology and gained invaluable experience in France. In 2001 Davide, then 27 years old, took charge of the vinification & affinamento/elevage of the wines with one goal in mind: "Wine should be a perfect copy of its terroir"... in this case from the slopes of Serralunga d'Alba, among the finest soils in the world.
The Giovanni Rosso cantina (winery) is located in the hamlet of Baudana, just a couple of kilometres north of Serralunga d'Alba village. A traditional family cascina, or farmhouse, it houses the fermentation, ageing, bottling and labeling facilities as well as the offices.