A tight but complex nose of mixed berries with sweet, creamy spice and turkish delight. Some herbs in the mix, too, even a hint of wild onion. Medium-to full-bodied with a dense, silky palate that’s full of flavor. Balanced and even, with a lightly firm, spice-coated tannin frame. The finish is a little firm for now, but this will be super long and luxuriant in a few years’ time, when everything has come together. Super. Delicious to taste now, but drink from 2024.

More muscular in character than the estate's Rio Sordo, this has a spicy, dusty nose with berry fruits and herbal overtones. Prominent, chocolatey tannins are balanced by piercing acidity, filled out with ripe red and black fruits, damp earth, fresh tobacco and spicy cedar. Matured for 20 months in 2,500L Slavonian oak, with a small portion in barrique (Drink between 2021-2030)

Romano Marengo's Ca’ Rome’ 2018 Barbaresco Chiaramanti reveals a textured and soft approach with some ripe fruit and blackberry backed by spice and tarry smoke. The thick fiber of this mid-weight wine cedes to integrated tannins and rich fruit concentration. - Monica Larner

The 2018 Barbaresco Chiaramanti is a soft, fruity wine to drink now and over the next decade. Succulent red cherry, red plum, cedar, spice and rose petal all meld together as this sensual inviting Barbaresco reveals its charms. All the elements are so nicely balanced. -- Antonio Galloni