Dense nose with licorice-tinged, crushed raspberries and blackberries. Full-bodied and full-fruited palate, then there’s a steady, velvety-tannin build through the long finish. Really well structured and polished. Showing great promise. Excellent 2018 from the Monforte d’Alba zone. Give it the time it needs to show its best. Try after 2025.

The 2018 Barolo Ginestra Vigna del Gris is elegant and woven tightly together with small berry fruits, redcurrant, wild lilac and violet, crushed stone and licorice root. With fruit from Monforte d'Alba, the wine is streamlined and silky, but you also sense the power and tightness of the inner fiber that locks it all together with seamless precision. Exactly 9,094 bottles were made.- ML

The 2018 Barolo Ginestra Vigna del Gris is elegant and lithe in feel. Bright red fruit, mint, spice, licorice, blood orange and sweet pipe tobacco give this nervy, transparent Barolo tons of nuance. The 2018 is decidedly focused. It will be interesting to see if it fleshes out a bit more with time in bottle. I suspect it will always remain a bit lean though. - By Antonio Galloni on November 2021