Elio Grasso - Gavarini Chiniera Barolo 2020 (750ml)

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Producer	Elio Grasso
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Varietal	Nebbiolo
Vintage	2020
Sku	07319
Size	750ml

 

From 35-year-old vines and boasting a jeweled red color, the 2020 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera is ripe and fruity on the nose, with a lot of spice to balance it out, revealing notes of baked red cherries, leather, toasted cedar, pine, and menthol. Medium-bodied, it offers a lot of freshness on the palate, with fine, approachable tannins and good, even freshness and acidity. Compared to the Case Mate, it has a more linear feel and offers a clean stony texture and more orange citrus fruit. It feels very balanced, and while it has a stamp of oak spice, it’s well-integrated. Give this another six months or so in bottle and drink it over the next 15 or more years.

Showing a slightly heavier fruit profile from the hot vintage, the Elio Grasso 2020 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera has aromas of strawberry tart with gelatin; there is also a dark tarry note and clean earthy tones. You don't get the floral aromas as much in this wine. The wine is very focused on fruit and earth, with some background spice. It finishes smooth and with length, showing good acidity, and the tannins are present but not overwhelming.

This red is well-endowed with vanilla, baking spice and toasty oak flavors, all wrapped around notes of cherry, strawberry, flowers and eucalyptus. Overall, this is elegant and should find a nice equilibrium once the oak is absorbed. Best from 2027 through 2043.