2019 Luigi Baudana Barolo Baudana [V96][JD96][WA94][JS92]

Producer: Luigi Baudana
Region: Barolo, Piedmont, Italy 
Varietal: Nebbiolo 
Year: 2019  

Vinous, 96 Points 

"The 2019 Barolo Baudana is absolutely captivating. Effusive and bright in the glass, with tons of freshness and remarkable fruit purity, the Baudana offers up generous dark red fruit, spice, leather, kirsch, hard candy, cedar, tobacco and underbrush. There's terrific depth here and exceptional balance, too. Rose petal, white pepper and chalk lift the high-toned, intensely saline finish." 

Jeb Dunnuck, 96 Points 

"The 2019 Barolo Baudana is flush with ripe red and black cherry, pressed flowers, and vibrant purity and depth. It is potent with blood orange, and it has a rich, firm structure that is ripe with turned earth, crushed rocks, and saline. It is a fully structured red with a long finish. Drink 2026 and over the following two or more decades." 

Wine Advocate, 94 Points 

"The 2019 Barolo Baudana offers good power and ripeness with sweet fruit flavors, dark cherry, spice and ferrous earth. These aromas are characteristic of this site in Serralunga d'Alba. The wine is silky and generous on the palate, with salty minerality on the close. On a scale of growing intensity, Baudana generally comes after the Barolo del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba and before the Barolo Cerretta in this portfolio of three wines." 

James Suckling, 92 Points 

"Note of ground spices, nut shell and cedar with subtle aromas of red fruit in the background. Medium-bodied, structured and firm. Chewy and lightly austere in the finish." 

Alcohol: 14% 

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