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Audrey Frick - jebdunnuck.com
The 2019 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera is just superb, with layers of pure fruits and spices interwoven with vibrant cherry liqueur, candied roses, incense, and baking spice. Harmonious and balanced from the start, it offers ripe tannins, a seamless spine of fresh acidity, and fantastic length that leaves me wanting more. As it opens, it reveals more nuanced notes of apricot and saline earth. An outstanding medium to full-bodied red, this is one to cellar for a few years, as it has a ways to go before its full spectrum is revealed. Drink 2026-2050.
96 Antonio Galloni - Vinous
The 2019 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera is classically austere and just gorgeous right out of the gate. Soaring aromatics and fine, sculpted fruit race out of the glass. Crushed rose petal, cinnamon, orange peel and mint are all beautifully delineated. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2019 is going to need years to be at its best, yet it has that embryonic inner sweetness that characterizes the very finest wines here. Superb.
95 Wine Spectator
A sleek red, with cherry, currant, iron and underbrush aromas and flavors framed by vanilla. Though firm, this is also elegant and long on the finish, where the fruit elements emerge gradually with air and linger among dense tannins. Best from 2027 through 2046.
"As has been the case for a number of years, Grasso's Barolos sit at a very high level within the hierarchy of Piedmont's top estates... Grasso is among the producers who deftly bridge modern and traditional styles with stylish, powerful wines that also age beautifully....[Elio Grasso's] 2019s are gorgeous, vivid Barolos that capture the best the year had to offer." - Antonio Galloni, Vinous
