Barolo Serra DOCG 2020 Giovanni Rosso

The Giovanni Rosso 2020 Barolo Serra comes from a beautiful panoramic amphitheater of vines. This wine has an etched and vertical quality that you recognize in its lifted bouquet. Sweet cherry and plum are folded into riper aromas of blackberry coulis and raspberry tart. The tannins are quite elegant and firm, and the wine offers very good length and lasting freshness.

A very pale ruby color is supported by a complex, layered nose with rhubarb, earthy strawberries, red currants, violets and cinnamon. Full of sucrosity on the palate, it shows good concentration, a medium body, refreshing acidity, fine-tuned dusty tannins and a polished finish. Cherry pit and floral aftertaste. A stylish wine with cellaring potential but also ready to drink. Drink or hold.

Cherry, mint, rosemary, iron and tobacco flavors are the hallmarks of this taut, linear red, whose dense, dusty tannins assert themselves on the compact finish. Best from 2028 through 2043. 583 cases made, 40 cases imported.

The 2020 Barolo Serra is a nervy, taut Serralunga Barolo. White pepper, chalk, mint, dried owers, crushed rocks and orange peel drive through a core of redtoned fruit, adding brightness and tension throughout. Readers who enjoy tense, salivating Barolos will find plenty of those qualities here. Pretty oral overtones brighten the finish nicely.