2016 Giovanni Rosso Barolo Cerretta

2016 Giovanni Rosso Barolo Cerretta

2016 Giovanni Rosso Barolo Cerretta

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.

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (96/100)
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.

James Suckling (95/100)
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.

Giovanni Rosso is a small, family-owned producer in the heart of the Barolo commune of Serralunga d’Alba. They make only red wines, and their 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.