Vietti Barolo Brunate 2017

Professional Ratings

• 96 Jeb Dunnuck

  Sourced from an average of 54-year-old vines in Brunate of La Morra, the 2017 Barolo Brunate was aged for 32 months in large oak cask and barriques. It offers brooding aromas of licorice, dried currant, and cedar. Congruent on the palate with mineral-rich turned earth, there is a firmly built structure with balance. Drink 2024-2050.

• 96 James Suckling

  Beautiful, sweet fruit and perfumes on the nose with fresh flowers, such as roses. Full-bodied with fine, dusty tannins and a long, persistent finish. Very caressing. Builds on the palate at the end. Drink after 2024.

• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  The Vietti 2017 Barolo Brunate is beautifully rich and fleshed out, with balanced fruit weight and inner structure. The bouquet reveals tart cherry and cassis, but the Brunate also shows a more delicate side, with crushed flowers, dried violet and polished stone. The power of this cru creeps up on the palate, where you feel the tightness of its fiber and tannins. Following that delicate aromatic preface, this Barolo ultimately delivers a strong, cellar-worthy performance.

• 95 Wine Spectator

  A ripe, fleshy style, offering plum, cherry, leather, menthol and iron aromas and flavors. Hints of rose and strawberry peek through as this builds to the long finish. There are formidable tannins too, yet they remain civilized and should allow this to develop nicely over time. Best from 2025.

• 95 Wine & Spirits

  Deeply concentrated flavors of black and red cherry combine with notes of loamy soil and polished rock in this edgy, tightly wound wine. The dark fruit tones coalesce around a bright pulsating core of acidity that propels the flavors upward. This needs some time to settle down, but there’s real excitement under the hood.