Renato Ratti Barolo Rocche Dell Annunziata 2018

The Renato Ratti 2018 Barolo Rocche dell'Annunziata (with 5,500 bottles produced) is the estate's headline wine with fruit from a special 1.5-hectare site with characteristic Tortoniano blue marl mixed with veins of sand. The wine is aged in a combination of new barrique and Slavonian oak casks. The results are fine and filigreed with aromas of sour cherry, smoke, tar and pencil shaving. I love the precision of this Barolo and the energy capped within its lean and tight mouthfeel. Drink 2024-2040. 95 Points. Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate.

My second favourite wine of the tasting. Very pale rusty rose petal. Sweeter red fruit – more open and juicy. dusty fine delicate tannins. beautiful drinking now. Ian Cook, FWC.