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2016 Barbaresco, Rio Sordo, Riserva, Produttori del Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful (Drink 2023 - 2049)
Antonio Galloni
94/100
Monica Larner
96/100
Product: 20168213912

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2016 Barbaresco, Rio Sordo, Riserva, Produttori del Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy

Description

Production is 11,355 bottles.

The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo takes it up a notch if you consider the tasting of each one of these single-vineyard wines tasted in order. With the Rio Sordo, you really start to feel the textural richness and fruit weight that can be achieved with Nebbiolo in a great vintage. This vintage is compact and tightly woven together, suggesting a forecast for an extra long drinking window. The Alutto and Marengo families farm the fruit used in this blend. This wine will live long, and I love that touch of candied licorice that appears on the close (especially when you come back to the open bottle 24 hours later).

Drink 2025 - 2050

Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (June 2021)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Alcohol % 15%
Maturity Ready - youthful (2023 - 2049)
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Produttori Del Barbaresco

Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni 94/100

The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo is a serious, somber wine. Black cherry, plum, lavender, spice and menthol show off the darker side of Nebbiolo to great effect. In most vintages, Rio Sordo is an easygoing wine, but not in 2016. Readers will find a potent, brooding yet mid-weight Barbaresco that screams with character.

Drink 2021 - 2036
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Oct 2020)
Monica Larner 96/100

Production is 11,355 bottles.

The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo takes it up a notch if you consider the tasting of each one of these single-vineyard wines tasted in order. With the Rio Sordo, you really start to feel the textural richness and fruit weight that can be achieved with Nebbiolo in a great vintage. This vintage is compact and tightly woven together, suggesting a forecast for an extra long drinking window. The Alutto and Marengo families farm the fruit used in this blend. This wine will live long, and I love that touch of candied licorice that appears on the close especially when you come back to the open bottle 24 hours later).

Drink 2025 - 2050
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (Jun 2021)

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